SHE WHOM THE GODS FEARED: INSIDE THE MIND OF A MONSTER

How do you go from being the most beautiful and desired woman in the woman to the most hated and feared? It is people that make monsters of other people. If you want to make the world a better place, look in the mirror and make a change. These are just some things that come to mind when i think of how others can make one so evil.



From a writer's perspective i must say that i had a lot of sympathy for this character because of the way she was treated. I grew up in Africa and there are many times i witnessed injustice. There are many times i saw people go through things they were not supposed to all because people just labeled them as a black sheep. Growing up i remember being accused of stealing from my uncle and his wife and i remember being told that if i admit it to being a thief, i would be freed, but if i denied it, i would be beaten. The trick is you don't win either way. If you admit to being a thief, you will be beaten and if you don't you will be beaten until you admit to being a thief. Either way you will be beaten.

People face injustice all of the time, but i believe the most crucial and cruel way to be in that predicament is when you are accused of doing something or being someone that you are not. How do you prove yourself from that? There are so many things that you can say and do to defend yourself, but what if people want to actual truth but refused to accept it? What if people want to see you suffer? That ladies and gentlemen is exactly what i had to go through for a long time in my childhood.

The bitch who put me through all of this pain watched as i was beaten daily and accused of things i never did. When the truth came out one day, i just couldn't bring myself to understand why anyone would want to put another human being in those conditions and enjoy themselves whilst the person suffered. Are human just that cruel? Do people just not care at all?



When i finally understood that this was a trait that many humans had inside, perhaps even myself, i wanted to create a worldwide mirror. I wanted to do something that would allow people to see themselves from that perspective. We all like to see people suffer! We all need to see people suffer to make ourselves feel better. That is the only reason why Jesus died on the cross, he had to prove to humans that he was willing to do anything for them, and what better way to do that than to live through the worst conditions ever for a day. That day Jesus died on the cross, that day he was brutally beaten and murdered by his own children, goes to show the true meaning behind the love that we have for our parents.

A child only appreciate his mother when he realizes that she had to push his big ass head out of her vagina. A cheating husband only appreciates his family after he gets involved into a car crash that paralyzes him from the waist down. People only get compensated for working. And God only cares for those who suffer for him. That is why rich men don't go to heaven. But there is a backlash to all of this sacrifice. As human beings we can only endure so much pain. Sorry Jesus we all can't be like you. We all can't have that willpower to resist the temptation to slap the right cheeks of those who slapped our left cheeks. Wee don't have the willpower to get back at those who hurt us and get away with it.

This is not a story of revenge, or is it? I don't know, but this woman, Assini was suffering at the mercy of the world and she prayed to her God to save her, he did not. This happens a lot of time, because sometimes God just wants to give a chance for others to learn from what you've gone through. Emmett Till had to be brutally murdered for people to realize that maybe being that damn racist just isn't fair. But why should i be made an example of? Why should i have to die for some idiot to learn from his mistakes and make himself better? Why shouldn't i fight back those who hurt me? Perhaps if i make them suffer, the same way they made me suffer then they'll realize that it hurts to suffer. Perhaps that is what goes inside the mind of a monster. So tell me, is it wrong for me to feel that way? Am i just like this woman who wanted revenge so much that she destroyed everything human about herself? Is it wrong that i actually think of her as a hero? Is Assini, actually the person in the mirror? Am i a monster? Are you?

A DOG AND A MASTER

A DOG AND A MASTER is my second book which will be published through PUBLISHAMERICA and available worldwide online on March 12th 2010.

I am very excited about this book because it means so much to me! I wrote this book back in 2007 and i did so in just a matter of hours. It's not very long but when i was done i didn't want to read it. I had never told myself a story that made me cry, and this one left me very depressed for a few days. I know that it was a masterpiece in ever aspect and that alone scared me.

The way i came about writing it was even more amazing. I went to my friend's Jeidy's birthday party and i remember seeing his dog. Jeidy was not trying to have the dog pee on anyone so he wanted to keep him outside but i insisted that he let him in. I remember almost spending the whole night petting the dog. I love animals i think i have had about every kind my whole life so it was a piece of me that i didn't want to let go of. The dog did in fact take a piss on me and when Jeidy found out he was very mad but i told him that i spilled something on myself.

Even when i put the dog down he followed me around the whole night and when i left he sobbed. It really touched me and i thought i should write a story about the little experience i shared with the animal. Of course i had to spice things up with a bit of fiction and then TA DA! I had a book worth being published. It was actually the second manuscript that i sent to my publisher and the first to get published. i remember getting the phone call when they told me that they wanted to publish A DOG AND A MASTER, i remember screaming my lungs off and jumping up and down at work! It was such a rewarding day for me.

I have written a lot of stuff and i am always very careful about what i want to publish. I have always taken this story to heart because i knew that once people read it they would be touched. My mother who is herself a published author as well was very impressed and called me in tears after she read it. She said i made her so proud as a writer and was amazed that i came up with such a magical story.

A DOG AND A MASTER tells the story of life from a dog's point of view from the moment's it is snatched from the warmth of its mother's fur to the hands of a young adolescent. Dogs never really grow, they always stay in the same state of mind. They are always great companions, very playful and very caring; unlike humans. Although the Dog stays in his mindset his owner grows up and finds things other than chasing him around entertaining, so their relationship changes to the point where they are no longer an item.

One day the dog meets a man who shows him a lot of care, attention and gives him all of the love he ever wanted, the dog falls in love with that man and wants him to be his master. The only problem is that the man only comes to the house but once and years pass by when the dog never sees him again. The story revolves around the dog's relationship with his master crumbling after he meets the new man who is actually his master's friend. During those years that he awaits the man's return many things happen both for the dog and his master.

This is likely the most touching story i have ever written and i have refused to read it again. Many people who have had to chance to read it before it was actually published have told me that the fact that the fact that it is written very poetically makes it even more heart wrenching because it's as if in each stages the events keep amazing the reader. I must say that i am definitely very excited about the finished work and i can't wait for the rest of the world to experience this touching story. I promise you that it has classic written all over it!

WHO IS ASSINI?

My book, SHE WHOM THE GODS FEARED focuses mainly on the life of Assini and how she went from being the most admired, desired and loved woman in her village to be a being that even the Gods feared.

In the book, Assini is not originally from the village Sayo. She and her parents lived in the neighboring village to Sayo; Wragayo. The Wragayo village was involved in a series of war with a different clan. The village asked the rich and powerful leaders of Sayo for help but they turned them away, in the end the village suffered. Almost all of the habitants were killed and the village itself was burned to the ground. Assini's mother and father took their surviving child of five and ran away in the middle of the night. They came to a road block when they had to cross the Nawa river, likely the most famous in Ivory Coast for its strong currents and dangerous water creatures.

The couple knew their chances were slim to none but they were determined to keep their child alive so they tried crossing at their best. Unfortunately both were attacked by wild hippos and lost their lives. Miraculously their daughter survived the attack and was rescued by a wise woman of the Sayo village.

Having recently lost her husband and children during a flood, Kizu was more than happy to be the adoptive mother to the orphan. Both needed love and indeed both found it in each other. The villagers of Sayo had lived very whealthy lives for the majority and those who were unfortunate to not be the king's favorites or be rich, were treated worse than nothing. It was as if when you were poor you were dead. Assini did come from a poor family but she ended up in the hands of a very admired and respected rich woman that even the king bowed to.

Aside from facing the usual insults and mistreatment from a few people because of her background, she had a great childhood and turned into the most beautiful woman in the village. The people of Wragayo were usually people of many different backgrounds and countries in Africa. When she was little people found her facial features to be unattractive, but by the time she reached the age of 17, Assini's facial features had stretched into perfection making her look as if she was born of a God.

Her physique was also very talked about; so much that even the princes had their eyes on her. Many wanted to know her physcially and the women wanted to look just like her. So how did the most beautiful woman in the world become so ugly in the eyes of the same people who thought she was beautiful in the first place? She couldn't have children with a very powerful man with a family of very strong opinions about such things.

She married a man whose family had disagreed with the union to begin with as they didn't want their son to be associated with an orphan no matter how beautiful people thought was. When Assini couldn't bear children, the family of her husband found a better reason to point out why they shouldn't have been together in the first place and encouraged her persecution as a curse and witch to the village.

This story of course takes place thousands of years ago when ignorance was the ruler in Africa and those who tried to out think it were rapidly executed. It is also the tale of a woman who has endured pain through her life from early childhood until she found true love and happiness, only to have it all taken away by people who pretended to be happy for her when they wanted her dead all along.

Assini in her struggles finds refuge in spirits that because of her beauty are willing to give her the world as long as she gives them love in return. There are many twists in the book, many events that will shock you, make you smile, make you laugh, and make you cry. For myself as a writer, i found the experience in creating the characters very exhausting. I felt like with each word that i typed i was literally giving away a brain cell. Yet the experience as a reader is very rewarding. I must say though, if you get this book, make sure that you've done whatever you need to do before you start reading it. Once you start, i guarantee that you will never want to put it down!

INSIDE THE MIND OF A WRITER

What makes one a good writer? What makes one write in the first place? People have many reasons as to why they write what they write. You don't have to be a professional writer to be a writer. A lot of writers always come up to me and ask me how it is that i got my book published; I must be an amazing writer. I will say that my writing is of course great but that can be my personal opinion and those of the ones who do decide to publish what i write. But there are many people out there who write stuff that's just pure and utter crap! So the question is, what makes a good writer, a good writer?

Is there really such a thing? Didn't the chick who wrote THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA write a second book that turned out to be complete and utter crap? I guess it all comes down to inspiration for many. There are many events in your life that can make you a good writer or a bad one. Some people think that they have to be inspired so they look for inspiration. Really? Looking for inspiration? That's like trying to get a dump out of your ass from an empty stomach. Do you know how long that will take? Well i don't because i don't really struggle with dumps, i just eat and then GBLAKATA! Oh yeah i think that's the sound it makes, yeah way TMI i know sorry! lol

So, there is no such thing as looking for inspiration; i guess you can compare it to many singers and their music. Amy Winehouse's BACK TO BLACK is one of my all time favorite, but apparently, or word has it that homegirl was high when she was recording it. It kinda makes you go, well why do people want her to get clean? Don't you know she makes great music high? Okay I'm just joking, but seriously, i think that most of us are better artists at our crafts when we're f**ked up! And by that i mean me.

I cannot write good, or be creative when i am happy and in love. When i am having fun with my friends, going out, enjoying life, my writing sucks! There is nothing that i can do about it. It seems that happiness takes away my creativity. That is not exactly the way i expected to define myself as a writer but it certainly is the truth. There is no way around it, believe me i have tried to write happy. I ended up writing some...well here are a few titles just to name a few:

• The joys of having a girlfriend
• What to do with your penis when you're alone
• The beauty of a woman's breasts
  
• One night at the club
• Tomorrow i have to work

You see, i cannot really function well when i am in a relationship, happy hanging out with friends and having fun. Those things limit my mind to these titles!


On the other hand when i am bored, lonely, sad, broke, unhappy and scared, the best ideas come to my mind. So get this, when i become a rich all time author who has enough money to buy it all, what the f**k will i do then? Put myself in a situation that can get me inspired? In order for me to be recognized as a talented artist i have to be broke, sad, lonely, bored and scared? If you have it differently, then consider yourself lucky my friend because I'm f**ked!

she whom the Gods feared

This is my first book published through Publishamerica. It is quiet a great achievement to be an author i mus say. It's my first release and expectations are very high, at least from my perspective. I have to do a lot of promotion and i am currently garnering enough information and sources to continue my promotion.

It means a lot to me because the story is an African story but it's also a story from my roots. It's a story that happened in my village Sayo and i am very honored to have such a story get publication through the states. It makes one feel very proud that you can come from so far and become a published author in America by not doing much but talking about something that is very familiar to you.

The book tells the story of a beautiful young woman in Sayo who loses faith in mankind when she isn't able to fulfill her expectations as a woman. Being beautiful and being married to the most wanted and admired man in the village just isn't enough, she must also please his family. When Assini fails to become pregnant with her husband, rumors of a curse start to circulate and they point the fingers at her for being damned by the Gods therefore unable to bear children. Complications begin when her husband tries to defend his beautiful wife standing in the way of the king and the tradition. Assini is persecuted as a cursed woman and has everything taken from her. But when the humans turn against her, the spirits come to her rescue, turning her into the most unstoppable supernatural force of nature that the village has ever witnessed. Only the most faithful will survive in the battle against SHE WHOM THE GODS FEARED.



That is just a little insight of what the book is really about. To me of course it means more than that. The story is fictional but the events are factual. These are stories that i heard from the elders in my village who felt it was important to know where i came from and who filled the royal shoes that i was about to start wearing. It's very easy in life to point the finger at someone and blame them for the curses in your life. I think for most people it helps them get away from facing their problems. It's all fiction and fiction helps us escape our realities. The villagers were already facing problems and when Assini couldn't get pregnant they called her a witch and blamed her for their problems but what happens next?

In this case, when she gets a hold of spiritual powers and has the ability to make her revenge accessible in any way or form she desires, should she be blamed? Or should the people who suffer at her hands be the ones to deserve exactly what they bargained for?

That is exactly what inspired me to write this story. i believe that people get a lot of things mixed up and i don't really think that it's fair. If a killer comes to your house with a knife and you catch him but you get the upper hand because you have a gun and the killer begs you for his life, what do you do? Do you call the police and let them take him away, he goes to jail where he stays for 10 years and comes back after you or do you just shoot him in the face? In this book the idea is put into perspective. After being terribly hurt, this woman is given power to do anything she wants to anyone who ever hurt her. Now as you read this book, you will realize that some of you may think of her as a hero, while others will think of her as the worst villain they'd ever encountered in reading. One question remains; what would you do if you had gone through what she had gone through and were given the chance to make those who made you suffer, pay for all they did to you?

Here are the links to where to purchase the book:

http://www.amazon.com/Whom-Feared-Prince-Lcharls-Degreat/dp/1448927064/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264045612&sr=1-1

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?WRD=she+whom+the+gods+feared&box=she%20whom%20the%20gods%20feared&pos=-1

http://www.publishamerica.net/product87698.html

I AM PRINCE LCHARLS DEGREAT AND WELCOME TO MY WORLD!!!!!

Are you ready to embark into my many journeys? Are you ready to be driven away from this world we live in to a world of fantasy? A world where princes, princesses, kings, queens, gods and goddesses exist? Well then dear friend you have come to the right place!

I am the chief prince of the Sayo Village in Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Caost) that's right and I am also a published author. In your journey through my blog i will tell you about my life, my experiences, and most importantly my books. You see I have to start promoting my book because well you know, getting it published just isn't enough...according to my mother. Now I am 22 years old and I think I have done pretty darn well for myself, if you know what I mean.

I came here when i was 12 but at the time i was not a prince. Where i come from these things take time to happen. My first book is called SHE WHOM THE GODS FEARED; it is currently available on AMAZON.COM, PUBLIHAMERICA.NET, AND BARNESANDNOBLES.COM. I am very excitd to be an author. I do plan on releasing many books, well because you know, why stop at one? When you are as talented and gorgeous as I am. Oops sorry i thought i was on one of those modeling auditions lol.

i was born on January 18, 1988 on a saturday i think after giving my mom a 24 hour big run for her mouth. Geez, it makes you think, 24 hours of pushing some big headed boy, only so he can one day turn out to be a published author??? That sucked! lol No i am sure that my mother is very proud of me. Anyways, my mom actually left me in Ivory Coast when I was 10 months old, i guess she just couldn't get over that 24 hour delivery thing, must have left a lot of scars lol. No just kidding, but she did it because she wanted to get us a better life, or so she says. You know many people will say anything to just get rid of a child lol.



She came to the U.S during that time and i stayed there struggling with many issues. My dad was a very powerful politician/loser who decided to run off on his responsibilities and pretend like nothing ever happened between him and my mom. I tell you, she should have brought his ass on the Maury show, i think that would have actually been the one episode where people would have finally heard YOU ARE THE FATHER. Damn that Maury! lol. Anywho it didn't bother me much not having a dad in my life, i was actually kind of relieved each time i saw my cousins get those rough african beatings from their dads. It made me go like, whew! thank God I don't have a dad! lol

But in all honesty i do think that my mother provided me with a loving circle made of my grandmother, aunts, cousins and uncles so i didn't even realize that i didn't have a father, until of course one of my cousins called me a bastard during a fight. Damn that hurt i guess; the funny thing is, i didn't know of my father until a year after he passed. Well isn't that nice? They called me and brought me down to my father's mother's house and told me, "Oh my god Lcharls, YOUR FATHER IS DEAD!! AHHHHHAHHHHH!" and i was sitting here like WTF??? Are they serious? Oh and get this, i was supposed to cry. Right, i never hear from this loser my whole life, i don't even know what the hell he looks like, but I'm supposed to cry? Why because he's my dad and he's dead? F**k that!



Anywho it was very weird being surrounded by people who were crying for me and not being able to shed a tear. Man it was embarrassing, i had to put spit in my face and pretend that i was crying, i mean that's just some preschool sh*t! To me if you never had a father in your life, then you really weren't supposed to. I for one feel that it made me a better person being my own father. My mother on the other hand, was great role model for me. She was actually a supermodel back before she had me, i know it sucks right? I am not sure i remember of a day where she didn't complain about losing her beautiful figure after she had me. lol



Africa was cool but some days it really sucked. I feel like when you are there, things are very limited. It sucks that those are some of the things that really hold us back as a people. Africans are very smart, very creative and beautiful people, i know this because i am african so try to keep up! lol. You can go to school and get all of the degrees that you want and still end up staying home and not doing sh*t with them! It hurts when i see some of my family members not being able to find jobs because the system is so corrupted. Everyone who comes into office just wants to fill his pockets, build homes and get all of the land he possibly can and not for one even give one piece of sh*t to the students, the people! That hurts!

I remember being there and telling my friends of my many dreams, and i also remember them laughing at me. Like whatever Lcharls, stop being so f**king delusional and wake up! I think it all really went down during my ceremony. When i had to become the prince of Sayo. My village is honestly not a big deal to many people in my country. Saying you are the prince of Sayo there is like telling people that America actually has a natural rainforrest. See? see? You didn't even know that; it's in Washington state loser!

Anyway, my grandfather passed away and since he was a prince, it was only right that after his passing someone else takes his place as the prince of Sayo. I was just eleven when i got picked and the first thing i said was, "YOU'VE GOT TO BE F**KING KIDDING ME, SERIOUSLY??" Sadly, they were not kidding. There are many princes and princesses in my family, but i am the CHIEF PRINCE. There is only one chief prince and that no one really liked. There was a lot of arguing when my grandmother decided that i would be the one the carry on the family legacy. But in the end, when people realized that my grandfather had blowned all of royal funds and that there was nothing left, everything became very stable! lol

So i was crowned the prince of Sayo and was to carry on the family's legacy for the many generations to come. That's quiet a lot on the plate of a 12 year old right? Anyway i think i am handling it fine. I didn't really know what to do with this new title, at least not until i was 18. I think that's when i discovered what and who i was meant to be. Well besides a superhero, a rapper, and many other things, i also aspired to write.

Writing frees me from whatever situation i am going through; it makes me feel better. It's like my crack you know? I don't really sit down and decide to write, all of the things i write just come to mind as i am writing. I get ideas, sit down and it all just comes through my fingers.

Aside from being a writer, i am also a screenwriter, short filmmaker for now, and i do many other very creative things which you will all come to know, the more time we spend together lol. I am very delighted to introduce myself to the world and i am definitely very open to see what the world has to offer me! This is Prince Lcharls Degreat signing out!