Why write?
I write because there are worlds in my head that I feel the need to share. These worlds and characters have been swirling about for most of life.
It began with sci-fi when I was nine. I called it Wildfire. Fifty pages, handwritten and illustrated…a world where a mad scientist invents robots that take over nearly everything. People become fat and lazy because they don’t work, don’t play, don’t do diddly. The kids of the world dislike this, rebel, steal secret military weapons, carve a hideout into the walls of the Grand Canyon, and stage raids to stop the robot takeover. The fat and lazy adults join the robots, and in the end the kids wipe them all out and take over the world. Now they get to rebuild it, and so on and so forth.
I often wonder what a child psychologist might have said about a nine-year-old writing a story that kills off all adults. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
I started a space opera at ten, also handwritten and illustrated, but I never finished it. I have it somewhere around here. Truth be told, I am not a good illustrator. All of my people, from side-views, have no noses. Seriously.
At thirteen, I typed my first sci-fi story, called The Secret Computer World. Yes, it was an homage to Tron (FYI, I was thirteen in 1985. Tron came out in 1982.) A character who was more-or-less me got zapped into a computer world, where he had to battle his way out, and emerged wiser and cooler than he went in.
In High School, I wrote a short-story which was a techno-thriller called Secrets Reveled. This was typed, and won me an award and the admiration of my instructor. Why yes, I was reading Tom Clancy novels at that time.
Why write? Because the words have to go somewhere!
I started a few things here and there, but nothing took. This went through college. Then, one boring day at work, this scene popped into my head. I wrote it out. Another scene in the same world popped up. Wrote that too. Eventually I had a whole story. Then I hit a snag, and a conversation with an old friend resolved that issue. Soon, I had a completed fantasy novel.
Eventually this would become Seeker, Book I of The Source Chronicles.
Over the next several years I completed a bunch of other works, and began to blog regularly. After spending a great deal of my life claiming I didn’t really know what I wanted to do, I realized I knew. Without a doubt, I am a writer.
Why write? Because these worlds in my head need to be shared. There are characters and stories that are almost as alive to me as my friends and family. I know them, I see them, and they need to be shared.
I’ve always loved to read. My imagination has always been vivid, and I’ve long described my writing style as being the camera over character x’s shoulder. Sometimes the camera gets to see inside character x’s head, too. I see it like a movie inside my head, and translate that to words on the page.
The characters, the worlds, and the stories all excite and entice me. As such, I believe that they have the power to do the same for you, and any other who enjoys reading.
Books and movies stirred my imagination. This in turn made me into the creative person I am today. My blog is focused more on the soul, while my novels are the mind. Specifically, the imaginative corners of the mind.
Why write? Because I love it.
Between the blog and my novels, I manage to write daily. Writing comes pretty easily to me. Blogging, sci-fi, Steampunk, fantasy, business, SCA…doesn’t matter, I can and will find words. It brings me joy and makes me happy. I sit in front the screen, keyboard beneath my fingers, my mix of movie scores, new-age and classical music playing in the background and find flow.
There is an energy that comes of writing which is hard to explain, and for me impossible to ignore. But I know others who do not find this as pleasant nor easy as I do. Further, there are many who have the ideas, but either do not know where to start, or what to do with what they have.
If you want to put words to the page, I want to encourage you to do it. Don’t try, there is no try – do it. Write the words, get them out of your head. Don’t be afraid that they are not great, the effort is what matters most. Dream big.
I am still working on my dream, and my greatest dream is to be a more successful writer. The measure of success is, in part, sales of my work…but more importantly, inspiring others. Whether it opens the imagination, helps you along your path, inspires new dreams, or causes you to want to write, I want to help with that.
Working together, consciously creating reality and manifesting dream lives, we can all make the world a much better place. I find inspiration in many different places. What’s more, I want to help others to find inspiration and be inspired.
Why write? Why not write?
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