The man outside the mind

I am an extremely versatile writer, with works ranging from a book about a small eight-pound dog trying to navigate through a satirical post-apocalyptic world full of blood thirsty critters and loving cybernetic snakes (or ‘Machinacondas’), to a story about a dejected gangster wrestling with his inner demons while prisoner to a dystopian desert city run by a hierarchy of gangs. I aim all my stories to be real, no matter how fantastical the subject matter, and the characters raw with real emotions and reactions to the environments and situations I throw them into. Storytelling, to me, is as important as anything else. Growing up with movies and books taught me how to navigate my mind and inspired me to become more than what life might have brought me before I began penning my thoughts. Like all the great storytellers before me, I wish to awe and inspire those who are still living life in automatic. 

Blade Runner 2049 and The Last of us Parts One and Two are three examples of the kind of writer I strive to be. Its a rarity these days where you enter a story and come back out the other end shaken and dare I say it, a different person. It is utterly fascinating to me how a story could be powerful enough to not only just turn you inward and make you question your day to day, but also completely rewire your brain in a way that almost allows you to transcend into a different plain of thinking. Not a day has gone by where I have no thought about Blade Runner 2049 and its brutal take on the human condition and the utterly real and tangible world it builds it story upon. Not a day goes by where I don't think of Ellie, and how compelling and relatable her character is, and the horrible confliction brought upon her by a seemingly loving and human decision. 

I will be thinking and talking about these stories for the rest of my life and, one day, hope to be the source of someone else's ascension to a fundamentally different state of perception. I will be striving to accomplish this achievement in storytelling until the day that I die.