About the Author: War within one's head.

Inspiration can strike you from anywhere. Like a sniper, waiting from a distant vantage point or a little blunter, running at you flapping its arms and screaming for your attention…there are many forms of how creativity can ambush.
I have been through this continuous cycle of cat and mouse/giant killer mouse and cat for a long time now. Sometimes we have busy schedules… So naturally when you have no time to sleep or hardly eat, an idea demands your undivided devotion. Not a pretty sight afterwards. And then we have other times when we really want to write, draw, just create something…and the mind goes completely blank.
This was my battle. Now of course, I fight back against my imagination. Not to tame it, no; that would be a waste…just, a battle to decide whose priorities will win. Mine: Usually involving school and a social life as well… or the creative part of my brain: Usually with the most inopportune timing I can possibly imagine. I mean, who needs a life right?
Alright, so I exaggerate most of the time, but not now. I am an artist and a writer with a love of biology. Random yes, but surprisingly beneficial as well. The science loving part of my brain and the inspired, kind of out-there part tend to counterbalance.
While I can come up with ideas I love and think could be a potentially good fantasy fiction story, the other side desires reality. This started a very long list of doubts for me. I was worried my ideas would never have a chance. Finally with pen in hand one late summer day, with a combined effort from both sides, I wrote out a very strict outline for an idea. Success! …Well, baby steps anyway.
Since that summer about four years ago, things have changed. There is harmony between the left and right side of my brain, sort of, and I have a new way of placating both halves. With each new idea, usually with some fantasy or sci-fi theme, I combine the crazy theories with facts. Say I’ve got a science fiction story with the ocean as the setting for example: I research the details I need, ocean geography, pressure details, various salinity statistics and study the tides for a firm grasp on what I’m writing about.
It’s like that for anything…some more abstract ideas than others. Each blog from now on is to be about some theme/setting/theory that is needed for one of my crazy imagination and its ideas. I believe the randomness in this blog’s purpose now makes a little more sense.
Alright then! With each topic, I plan on learning something myself. If you gain knowledge of anything from my future posts as well, the goal has been met.