I Write

I write

So I can look forward to reading exactly what I like to read.

Because I witness such remarkable people and events that I can’t stop thinking about them.

I think

that literally all the stories have been told already. What remains is originality in how a story is told. What remains unwritten is “voice”, meaning the speech impediments evident in the written way an original mind expresses itself.

I love

Love stories – as opposed to yer basic shits-and-giggles, clutch-butt romance. I need high tension. I need people who pretty much, from the get-go, sense that they are on life-changing ground, who sense that when they and their counter-part come together, there will be enough amperage to either cause them both to sublimate or, should they allow their union to be shorted-out, be torn apart.

I knew a man who touched 100,000 Volts. The current went in his left hand, tore open his shoulders, and on exit, blew an egg-size hole in the bottom of his right foot. It left him an alcoholic. That’s what I mean by high tension. That’s the love story template I attempt to use.

Such love stories are mandated to be action stories, because that’s how those lovers find out about each other – not through garden party tete-a-tete. In action, in physical risk, tossing the grenade of life or death around, they come to realize the fact of the love they thought they saw in a chanced glance.