My Inspiration

Well, to me this is a kinda a touchy subject. I can't point to a specific author and say they are the reason i write. Though i should be able to. To be completely honest i never thought writing would be something that i enjoyed. I was always better at math and science rather then English. Because of this i had a sort of hatred for books and literature. And that may be one of my biggest regrets. Now, i wish i spent more time reading, searching for books and pieces of art that i enjoy. Reading to me was always an assignment, the same goes for writing.It was always "sate the facts" and to me that is just as boring and un-creative as it gets. Write the standard essay. I do understand the importance of essay's though. They relay a great deal of information. But i don't think they need to be as cut and dry, let alone boring as they are. The first time i started to see writing as entertainment or something that i might want to pursue was during my senior year of high school. I took an elective English class which covered graphic novels and dystopian worlds. The first part of the class we went over imperfect worlds and we read "A clockwork Orange" which is one of those must reads. But that didn't make me want to write.

Half way through the year it switch over to the graphic novel portion of the class. And that is what it sounds like. Comic books. We read comic books. We read batman and a bunch of others, one being "Watchmen" which is amazing. Then one of our assignments was to write our own. And i did. I wrote out the story, and even what the pages would look like. How many panels the pages would be. Whether or not the pages would be a splash page or have a mirror effect with the next page. It came out to be around 20 pages. I got an A+ on the paper and on the back my teacher wrote "This could be published." I was so ecstatic. I hand crafted this world, this universe with these characters and someone enjoyed it to the point of wanting to see it actually printed out. That to me was amazing.

I then thought about how i actually came up with the story. It was nothing brilliant, it was a basic revenge plot. But i could vividly see the characters in my head. I could see the actions unfolding, to the exact position and placement of miscellaneous items. To me it looked like a movie.

So now i'm currently stuck as to what i want to do with my stories. I don't know whether or not i want to turn them into novels, comics, scripts or cartoons. But what i do know, and for for a fact is that I want people to be entertained by my stories. If i can make you smile, cry or express any emotion through what ever from i decide to put my stories in, then i will have achieved my goal, as an entertainer.

I want to make people put down the book and say "Wow!"