I'm a middle-aged man with a teenager's mind.
When I was younger, I always had tough choices to make in high school. I was one of those never-quite-fit-into-any-clique types, sort of a loner, and at the time, desperately wanted to be accepted. Turns out it didn't matter in the long run but at the time...
...it did. And I realized a lot of other kids my age had the same tough choices to make--drugs, alchohol, sex, to name the big three--and the concept of choice is so powerful at that age (at any age, really, but more so in your formative years, I believe) that it just came through in my writing.
My first novel (see sig line) reflected that. I started writing it longhand at the age of 48 as a way of coping with my mother's illness and after she passed I committed myself to putting it in cyberspace.
And as they say, the rest is history...
When I was younger, I always had tough choices to make in high school. I was one of those never-quite-fit-into-any-clique types, sort of a loner, and at the time, desperately wanted to be accepted. Turns out it didn't matter in the long run but at the time...
...it did. And I realized a lot of other kids my age had the same tough choices to make--drugs, alchohol, sex, to name the big three--and the concept of choice is so powerful at that age (at any age, really, but more so in your formative years, I believe) that it just came through in my writing.
My first novel (see sig line) reflected that. I started writing it longhand at the age of 48 as a way of coping with my mother's illness and after she passed I committed myself to putting it in cyberspace.
And as they say, the rest is history...