I am a Bachelor of Physics, going for my Ph.D. in astrophysics. I am also an aspiring novelist for the Science
Fiction and Fantasy genres. I have started this blog in order to become a
better writer by penning my thoughts and to share the stories I write with
whomever may be interested.
When I was very young, my father showed me Star Wars. This
awakened in me a passion for sci-fi that has ever since flourished. Throughout
the years, I have scrambled for fantastic experiences wherever they are found:
movies, TV shows, video games, books, comics, anime, and more. Theater is the
one major medium that I never was interested in. I cannot say exactly why this
is so, but perhaps the reason for this will be discovered through the discussions
of future posts.
As I continued to surround myself with as much fiction as
possible, I began to have ideas seed themselves in my mind—stories of my own
that no one had written before. Believing myself a genius, I wrote down
everything that popped into my head. Most of it was simply brainstorming, but
once in a while I actually started the narrative. Later, though, I realized
that my writing sucked, and I would have to scrap what I had done so far. This
happened many times, and I ended up throwing out many of the ideas I had come
up with, putting them in a “secondary ideas” folder to be remembered, but never
used.
Eventually I realized that I should wait and learn and
practice my skills more before attempting to unleash my magnum opus upon the
world. To date, I have a humble finished collection of one single short story
called The Gravekeeper’s House, which
I will share with you sometime in the near future. My current project is a
fanfiction of Bionicle, written for a
general audience, not just for those familiar with the official story. I’ll talk
about this more in later posts. My long-term plan is to write many practice
stories, and eventually, once my skills improve enough, to start sending them
to publication agents.
So what will the future of this blog hold? The goal I set
myself is for a new post every Friday. There will be several types of
discussions, in which I will talk about tools for telling good stories,
specific tropes and clichés, and how to explore real issues in fictional
worlds. Other times, I will discuss specific stories or franchises, detailing
exactly what I like and don’t like about them, and how they relate to me
personally. Expect to see one of these soon after Avengers: Age of Ultron comes out in a few weeks, as well as a
countdown series for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And of course, I will post,
link to, and/or promote all stories I finish. This blog will be a journey, a
story in itself, and I don’t have any particular destination in mind except
forward.
I look forward to this endeavor, and I hope you will ride
along with me. I already have nearly 40 potential topics to cover. With three
quarters of a year’s worth of topics to choose from, and plenty more to come
along the way, I don’t think I will have any trouble keeping up. So check back
next week. Live long and prosper, and may the Force be with you.
