Thoughts. Thoughts of stories, worries, commitments, chores. Once my brain starts going, can't sleep anymore.

Gaming (scrabble, uno), watching movies, thinking, talking to fiancee, reading articles online, number crunching personal projects. I'm always on the go. Can't sit there and do nothing.

eBooks? I almost never read them. I have ADHD. Sitting there and reading is extremely demanding. It has to be very interesting for me to read it. I buy hard copies instead and they are usually lessons and stuff. Complete Idiot's Guide to... etc. Most times I discover them through amazon. No where else really.

Yup. And if I remember a teacher telling me, keep your first story to yourself. Now I know why. The first one is always too personal. It didn't make for a good story for a wide audience.

I sit and I write. That's about it. Most of the time, I have stuff planned out before I write the first scene. Sometimes I discover things as I'm writing and the story veers off course. I explore it until I get it back on track. It's always interesting when that happens.

I do everything thematically. The theme is the backbone of all stories. Imagery assists in that. Sometimes themes can be represented in metaphor. So, metaphoric images are the ones I aim for. In this case with Nova Episodes, I really had no money to hire any artists.

This is an area I am not good at. I am not good with people, making sales, nor marketing materials. But so far, I found Facebook Ads useful. If I could manipulate the art more, I'd do it.

I grew up in a small village of 80 people. Still there too. Growing up isolated within an isolated community forced me to spend two-thirds of my life in an imaginary world. Over 55'000 hours. I have more memory of my imaginary worlds than I do of people.

I started around the year 2001. When I hit 20 years old. I had this idea for a story that I couldn't get out of my head. I became obsessed with it, mostly because of my need to express. So I started on it in screenplay form. I was not confident enough for novelwriting, until years later.

Ascensionism. Second book of the Nova Episodes series. It's about Morgan Corlance's rise to power within Zodia, and all the fun features that pertains. It is, by no means, an easy piece of writing to write. Even before the first page, it has been challenging to research a totally different way of thinking.

No agent discovered me since I live in the middle of no where. I really had no other choice.

When discovering phenomenal lines that invoke the genius in me. Lines that feel like that were written by a mad man. I can never believe that really came from me. It's so weird.

When I was around 27 years old, I had a girlfriend whom wanted to see poetry. So I wrote "The Moonlight (Corrupted)" in Shakespearean style. Forcing myself to do that took my writing to a new level. But after we broke up, the next few ladies I dated, I started writing to them and my poetry exploded by the dozens, fascinating them with beauty. Writing within limits (pentameters especially) forced me to optimize my words and sentences to express everything I could within my given boundaries. Screenwriting also did the same thing. Always had to maximize imagery and communication within so many lines and pages. Both mediums (poetry and screenwriting) forced me to have complete control over my sentences, expanding and condensing them at will. It gave me the ability to engineer each sentence anyway I wanted to and most times I engineered it for melody. By the time I got to novelwriting, I felt so much relief being able to decompress on the page without those limits. But those principles remained and are the hallmark to my style.

So far, I only got one fan. And she means the world to me. I always want to impress her with great stories. I always force myself to the challenge of doing better.

R.A. Salvatore. I talked to him a few times. Mostly complained about my life. Haha. He didn't have very much good advice for me. I wouldn't either.