Ideas come at the most Random times!

So as a writer some of my most greatest creations have come at random times! No seriously, I one time  had an idea for a story on my way to the grocery store. You just cant predict when an idea will flood your mind.

When an idea comes into my head, it's almost like my mind writes the story within minutes, and then I begin writing. My mind stores this story until it is fully written down in a document. I'm seriously it's like the craziest thing ever. So I wanted to share exactly how I came up with the idea for "Maniac!"

So I remember it was right before the Summer NanoWrimo (National Writers Month) competition in 2013. The point of this competition was to see if you could write 50,000 words in the course of a month. Surprisingly I was a lack for ideas, and I desperately desiring to write something new. Something that I had never written before.

Up until Maniac,most of my stories surrounded far off cosmic wars and alien warfare. I wanted this book to be completely different, I wanted it to be almost tangible but just out of reach of possibilities. I was laying in my bed one night, and I was listening to the newest Kid Cudi album that was out at the time, and the song "Maniac" came on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT4hcbSNq6U

So anyways, I'm laying in bed, and my mind starts going wild as the song plays. Within in minutes I had created this near futuristic world full of political and sociological inequalities. I had created characters, and tragedy, and I had found my title within the song! Thanks Cudi!

This idea was too great to just turn over and fall asleep to. No I opened up my laptop and started typing at the speed of sound. I stayed up all night writing the outline. I created multiple characters and relationships. I wrote a backstory to how America got so messed up and the events that took place from today to the year 2063! I had a story and I knew what had to come next. I needed to begin writing.

Now at the time I started working for Verizon, and didn't have a lot of time to devote to writing 50,000 pages in one month. Nor did I think my book deserved to be rushed. So I continued writing at my own pace. The story was amazing. I fell in love with the characters.

The main character wasn't this night in shining armor. No he was a confused soul searching for his place in the world. At times I loved him, at times I despised what he did, and then there were times I felt down right sorry for him. When I was about midway through, I knew this story would define me as a writer. This story challenged me. I was writing a story that wasn't always the good guy. I was writing a book that I had to keep some part of it grounded in reality. This story would be huge if done right.

I became addicted. The stories of these characters were so gravitating. I had never felt this sensation while writing a book. I began to become Jimmy, and found myself having to pull back to reality. I devoted over a year to Maniac. I wrote day in and day out. I fell in love with my characters and their world. I had never gotten so caught up in the story.

When the story ended I cried a bit, and did my traditional payer for good luck in the post production and publishing efforts! I shut my computer and stood up and stretched feeling I had created a masterpiece in my own mind!

So jump forward a month and a half and here we are. I'm sitting in the student commons area at my school, one day closer to accomplishing a dream to become a published writer!!

So check here often for updates and Like the official Facebook Page for "Maniac!"

Thanks for all the support!!

The Artist-

"They're like an Onion"

So as most of you know I writer, and I've been writing for years. Most of my stories circled around amazing fantasy worlds that seemed so out of reach that none of us could ever imagine living in. The main characters, though multi-dimensional, seemed to be merely supermen that were virtually indestructible. And pretty much for years and years that was the character I had wrote about.

Coincidentally, that was the mindset I held myself to, that I was some seemingly indestructible superman, that words, or emotion, or physicality could not harm. As I've grown as a writer and as a man in the last 10 years since I've began writing, that mindset has diminished, so now my characters of today....

My characters of today resemble most of us, when face with a traumatic or seemingly deep decision. They are not supermen, and for the most part they only want to do what's right. I was talking with Colleen about my character Jimmy from "Maniac", he's what one may call an "Anti-hero". Like he has a good heart and had a great objective, but his motivation pushes him to do some sketchy stuff. Like myself, most of my characters go through a transition, where they begin as one person, and by the end they've completely changed.

The funny thing about my main characters from my two newest stories Jimmy from "Maniac" and Lincoln from "Un-Justice" is that most of the book you don't know whether to love or hate them. and I think that creates such a unique and interesting dynamic to the story! It keeps you interested and enthralled in the story, always wondering what the heck is going to happen next!

These new multi-dimensional non-supermen, are fun to write about, because they challenge me to step out of my comfort zone, and grow as a writer.

Most importantly I hope future readers will enjoy these two stories once they are released!!!

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Hard at work I am!

The Artist-

Changes with the wind...

In the last three years I've seen more radical changes in myself than ever before...

Radical doesn't necessarily have to mean bad... No it can mean great things.

The changes I've made have been for the better. I've grown more in the last 3 years than I had in the first 22. 

Change is good, and change can be for the better as long as that change is based on something good!.

At 25 I sit here pondering my past changes and smile towards the future!

See ya there

The Artist-