First I want to thank my parents. I figure that I owe them the most for my existence, so thanking them first seems like a good idea. I also want to thank my girlfriend, who gave me the encouragement to write a serial story. If you didn’t want me to tell you stories, I am not sure if I ever would have written this! I especially want to thank all the friends and family (or whoever) that read this. I hope ya’ll had as much fun reading it as I did writing it!
The story of “the car wreck in the desert,” “the black platform,” “Mind-compartmentalization,” and “anti-assassins,” had been developing in my head since high school. To be honest, I had given up on it a long time ago, thinking that I didn’t have what it took to really flesh it out. It wasn’t until I started keeping a journal that I started really working out my “writing muscles,” that I even considered writing any of this down. Eventually, I had gotten so used to writing that I started a blog, which then lead to finally getting this story out of my head. It is amazing how much that story changed as I wrote it down. What it was, and what it became, are now almost two different things. I am glad I waited though, because Compartmentalization is so much better now than it would have been if I wrote it in high school.
I have to thank K.C. Green for inspiring me to write and hold myself to a daily schedule. Without his advice, I probably wouldn’t have gotten anything written (check out his stuff here, warning, sometimes NSFW). I have to thank Kurt Vonnegut for showing me that fiction doesn’t have to be a “tyranny,” and inspiring me to be truthful and honest whenever I can with his stories. I also have to thank Oliver Sacks for turning Josh from an underdeveloped idea to a living, breathing human being with all his research on the human brain. I also have to thank Alfred Bester, Charles Dickens, Haruki Murakami, Jim Shepard, and countless other inspirations I pulled from my life.
I consider this run pretty much a rough draft for the most part. I am not sure what is next for it yet, but I have ideas. I hope that everyone who supported this endeavor will also support me with the next step, whatever it is! Until that time, this blog will revert to just random musings that I happen to have. Please enjoy!
The story of “the car wreck in the desert,” “the black platform,” “Mind-compartmentalization,” and “anti-assassins,” had been developing in my head since high school. To be honest, I had given up on it a long time ago, thinking that I didn’t have what it took to really flesh it out. It wasn’t until I started keeping a journal that I started really working out my “writing muscles,” that I even considered writing any of this down. Eventually, I had gotten so used to writing that I started a blog, which then lead to finally getting this story out of my head. It is amazing how much that story changed as I wrote it down. What it was, and what it became, are now almost two different things. I am glad I waited though, because Compartmentalization is so much better now than it would have been if I wrote it in high school.
I have to thank K.C. Green for inspiring me to write and hold myself to a daily schedule. Without his advice, I probably wouldn’t have gotten anything written (check out his stuff here, warning, sometimes NSFW). I have to thank Kurt Vonnegut for showing me that fiction doesn’t have to be a “tyranny,” and inspiring me to be truthful and honest whenever I can with his stories. I also have to thank Oliver Sacks for turning Josh from an underdeveloped idea to a living, breathing human being with all his research on the human brain. I also have to thank Alfred Bester, Charles Dickens, Haruki Murakami, Jim Shepard, and countless other inspirations I pulled from my life.
Thank you all do much!
I consider this run pretty much a rough draft for the most part. I am not sure what is next for it yet, but I have ideas. I hope that everyone who supported this endeavor will also support me with the next step, whatever it is! Until that time, this blog will revert to just random musings that I happen to have. Please enjoy!
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