My World of Writing

      For me, writing is so much more than an obsession.  Is it a part of who I am? Of course it is. It takes me to a world that breaks up the realities of life.  My characters are a reflection of my life.  They help me answer my problems and also serve as my test subjects.  My struggles become their stories.  In a way, building up their lives sometimes helps to fill in the dullness and loneliness of my own.

       But I think that there is one feature that is surpasses everything else that my stories and characters do for me.  I think of literature as being an author's voice to the rest of the world.  They are the key in which I can spread my message to the rest of the world.  This is one of the powers of literature that the world often overlooks.  Its really funny how "a drop of ink can cause a million to think."
     The way I go about doing this is probably different.  I'll be the first to say, my writing style is not the status quo. My work might not be everyone's cup of tea for sure.  I see that as a key strength in crafting that one story that we'll never forget.
      I'm a firm believer that even the most darkest of elements can create a story that has the most beautiful message.  After all, would Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird have meant so much if Tom Robinson had lived? What if the monster in Shelly's Frankenstein had never rebelled? This is how my mind works.  We need ugliness to see what is most beautiful in the world.  I tend to really favor stories with darker undertones for this reason exactly.

     For that reason, I'm always on the look out for these kinds of details in pretty much any form of literature. Being writers really gives us that sort of power to go deeper into a story than the average audience might.  So when I love a writer's style, I really love it.  I hope that I'll be able to bring some of these ideas to your attention when I do a few reviews.  There's so much to learn from another's ideas and story.  This goes beyond novels, I'm also talking movies, short stories, poetry, even music.
     Finally, I don't believe that writing is at all about following rules.  Everywhere you'll come across tips, suggestions, and so forth.  Those are all excellent, don't get me wrong.  But I think that the only way you, as an author, can really get out there and wow both yourself and your audience is to dig deeper and write your story in your words.  By sharing my own trials and errors as well as the words of a few of the "greats" I really hope that I'll be able to inspire other fellow writers in finding their voice and sharing it with the world.