Lately, I've found my niche in life. Sure I have written in the past but nothing substantial as my book (The Man With 1000 Friends). I have written my own comics before as a little kid. they started off as picture books. Simple drawings of poorly depicted people and creatures that fought each other and, of course, the good guys always won. I still remember my first picture book I made. It was my understanding of the gospel. God made everyone, they sinned, so Jesus had to come down and fight Satan (which looked like a dragon-lizard thing with a scorpion tale). When they fought, it was in a dust cloud that said "WHAM!" on it. first time Jesus was laying there on the ground with one eye open looking at Satan as he celebrated. Then the next page was another "WHAM!" dust cloud and Jesus came out the winner. It ended with him back in heaven getting a crown from Father God. It was very comical as I grew up and looked back on my kindergarten work of art. Throughout the years i drew another 3 comics. this time they were about me and my best friend at the time, Brett. We had superpowers after a horrific accident in a lab (and it was really gruesome for a 3rd grader to draw, now that I look at it). Arms and legs were separated and the only thing I didn't draw was blood, but it was really bad. One of us got decapitated and everything. Anyways in the end, the docs put us back together and we ended up being able to change into anything we wanted. We could fly, lift really heavy things, and run really fast. Often the villains in those comic books were based off of whoever was picking on us the worse at that time. They all ended up in jail and never got out. My last comic I wrote actually was a comic. It was about a kid who made a rubber suit and made it bullet proof. He could jump great distances like a bouncy ball. his opponent was a variation of the green goblin from spider man. It ended with him getting electrocuted because our hero couldn't be. Quite ironic.
I have come up with a number of superhero through my life. In high school, I came up with Lightning. A young man haunted by the son of a criminal whom his father had killed. It was a new type of superhero story because Jack (the villain) had nothing against Michael (the hero). He just wanted to kill him to make Michael's father suffer like he did after his father's death. As the name suggests, Michael's powers evolve around electro-magnetic energy (lightning, static, magnets, that kind of stuff) as where Jack's cane can absorb energy based powers and he can use them from the cane. We had filmed most of it, but before we could get the final shot, we had to leave the park and take every one home because my parents had a dinner reservation for valentines day (2008... thnx guys) and that next week, the girl playing the girlfriend moved to Cali. So, senior year, we decided to rewrite the movie and make the whole thing in one year, better, less cheesy, everything... we never even finished the script. BUT that didn't stop us! Joe and I kept coming up with new ideas, adding movies to the series, making it into an 8 part series. FOR THE RECORD: We do plan on making them but I will be doing it professionally because it is too big and too graphically sophisticated for hand held cameras and cheesy effects.
Now my "after high school" work has consisted of the final touches of the Lightning Saga and my new book The Man With 1000 Friends. I do plan on getting it published but not yet. I am in the middle of rewriting it and adding chapters. I think I will keep rewriting until I am confident and comfortable with how it is written and all the details in the story. It is about a Senior in high school (Nick Rotial) who meets a girl in his class who has a psychotic ex boyfriend who makes his life a living hell. Will Nick be able to stop Robert (the ex) from ruining their lives and keep the girl in the end? Just keep coming back and reading. It's not close to being done.
Some times I wonder if anyone reads my posts. I would love to have a big following but I don't know who is reading, what random people think of my story. My friends all like it and some want to kill me because I'm not answering questions without asking more, but there are no critics and no one who doesn't like me, reading this that has commented on any of my posts. I wish I had more of a following but I'm willing to wait. As far as I am concerned, even if no one is reading it, that blog poses as a back up to my original copy on my computer. If for some reason My computer crashed, I could always get my book back from the blog. nothing lost except for what i had not posted and usually things come out better the second time you try and write than the first time around. I can't wait to be published and see my book in stores. I would just love to see the peoples reaction to it through the years. Maybe someday, a young and up coming film maker will want to make it into a film. I'll be over seeing the script writing for sure but i would love to see it as a film as well. Will that film maker be me? I don't know. For now I'm happy to just let it be a book. Only the future will tell if it becomes as big as I hope it will.
