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How Do Nonfiction Works Directly Connect to Works of Fiction?
How my nonfiction and fiction connect define my overall brand.
I began writing fiction some forty years ago. I was 9.
That first work of sci-if — called Wildfire — was imaginative and literally colorful (hand-written and illustrated by me). But it might also have caused some psychologists to question my mindset (spoiler alert: The kids — who are the protagonists of the story — end up killing not just all the robots created to take over everything, but all the adults, too).
Over the years, I wrote more sci-fi, fantasy, and Steampunk sporadically. For all the finished works I have, there are probably an equal number of unfinished, half-started, and incomplete works, too.
Journaling in my teen years evolved into LiveJournal in my 20s, then blogging after that. Via this nonfiction writing, I started developing and exploring my life philosophy.
This gave way to a deeper look into mindfulness, conscious reality creation, self-awareness, and similar ideas that all come down to the same thing: Choice.
Rather than let life live me, I determined I preferred to choose how my life could be.
