Let’s face it, as a kid the stories that kept us up at night were always the ones that piqued our interest in some atypical way. For me, those stories were the ones that altered reality in some extraordinary way. Stories that were inspired by things that we all go through such as overcoming adversity, but encapsulated by a world greater than we can imagine. No surprise here, I was (and still am) a big Star Wars and Avatar fan (The Last Airbender, not James Cameron!) Although I loved these stories and still do, I never thought I could actually create a story that had similar elements until I did. That’s the beauty of storytelling in my opinion because everyone has a story to tell, it’s just a matter of how to tell it.
Although my debut dark academia trilogy starter, The Zaragoza Chronicles: Beginnings is a story that has characters developing superpowers, it’s really about a story about ordinary people choosing to be extraordinary not through their abilities, but through their actions. You can say I write to inspire others to feel like they can accomplish anything they put their minds to, but the reality is probably a wee bit more selfish than that. I write to inspire that kid inside of me who grew up on fantastical tales of space samurai/wizards defying the odds to bring balance back to a world that lost sense of it. Why? Because I think that the kid in each of us, is still a powerful entity that sees the world not how it is, but how it could be. A world where good triumphs over evil. A world where we can recognize all of our individual differences and realize that our differences don’t divide us, but are rather a beautiful mosaic that showcases the diversity of who we are as a species, and if you zoom out far enough, realize that the mosaic creates something beautiful.
I write to remind people that we are really all the same, not to chastise individuality, but for us to recognize that despite our backgrounds, we all still share the same hopes, fears, and dreams. I write to remind the kids in all of us that no matter what b.s. has been spewed down our mouths as we matured into adulthood, that similarity in beliefs is what unites us and sometimes it just takes a little bit of science fiction and fantasy to make reality more, real.
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