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Create — Revise — Repeat
The writer’s equivalent of rinse and repeat. Create — Revise — Repeat.
When I was 9 years old, I had an idea. A sci-fi story came into my head. It wasn’t long before I sat down with notebook, pen, and markers and started writing. Soon I had Wildfire — 50 illustrated pages of sci-fi adventure.
When I was 13 years old, inspired by Tron, Back to the Future, and enjoying access to my first computer (an Apple IIe, FYI), I typed out a 36 page, single-spaced sci-fi story. The Secret Computer World hero was definitely me — and involved people from my life at the time, too.
When I was 17 years old, I was in a high school creative writing class. Disregarding the teacher’s formulaic “write what you know” suggestion — I wrote out a technothriller short story (I may have been reading a lot of Tom Clancy at the time). I shit you not — I got a ribbon and certificate during a school award ceremony for Secrets Revealed.
In college, I worked on — but never completed — a fantasy story. Fall of the Emperor will most like NEVER see the light of day (at least, not as originally conceived).
While bored at work one afternoon in 1998, a fantasy scene came into my head. I wrote it out. Soon, it was followed by another, and another — and Seeker of the Source was born.
