For the past 15 years, give or take a few, I've been a professional 3D artist for a large handful of companies ranging from small town owner to Fortune 50 corporations. It has been a volatile career facing layoffs at every corner and trying to decide to kiss up to the boss or keep to your principles. While I have felt rewarded and blessed to make it this far, each year I have felt my strings pulled back towards storytelling.
Writing is something we all do, of course, but I am talking about the art of designing an idea and flesh it out to where someone learns something new. Taking the idea and turning into words on pages so people can read them and develop the same idea as I had. It's from this concept that I have always loved since I was a child.
To be honest with you, I am a good liar. It has been a skill that worked to my advantage not just in my childhood slipping past certain punishment by my parents but throughout my career. Sure I have been told how lying is a terrible thing to do - it's even a sin if you read some religious text. But for me, lying is an art form and can be a benefit if used in the proper way.
I lie to tell a story. As the years move on, my skill at lying has been crafted to a solid state of effortlessness. I am no pathological liar, rest assured, but I do tend to weave my lies through my conversations if the situation calls for it. Perhaps it's a white lie to save someone's feelings from being hurt (you know you've done this before). Generally I create a lie as a joke or a prank to pull on a friend, and I always confess afterwards.
And that brings me to why I am here with you today. My lying has given me the grace to come up with tall tales fairly easily. I think well on my feet, and that lets the ink flow from the pen smoothly. I seldom get writer's block because my mind is vivid with more stories I conjured up that need to be put onto paper.
Among these pages before you is my beginnings of an idea I once had. Provided to you, at no charge whatsoever, are the writings of my lying mind in hopes they will intrigue and entertain you as much as they did to me writing them. The genres will range considerably, but you can expect all of them to be fictional and breeching the edges of the imagination. For those who like a quick tale, I have created a Short Stories section to this blog where they can be found. For those wanting more to chew on, my Serial Novels page will showcase "bite size" sections, or serials as they were once called, of a novel. Upon all parts revealed, I will compile them to the best of my ability and provide the full digital copy to you, the reader, in a suitable format for your devices.
One final note - For those seeking visual flavor to go along with your selected reading, I will be creating conceptual illustrations that go along the books that are being written on here. These are mostly for inspiration to myself, but I certainly hope you enjoy feasting your eyes upon them as well.
Let's see what we can come up with...
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