Prized Posession and Where It All Comes From

For some time now, I’ve written many forms of pieces. I’ve written articles, a book, short stories, and even more poems than I had ever written before. The first book I’ve ever written, and still admittedly have not finished with only 3 or 4 chapters remaining, began when I was just 16 years old and to this day, it is the source of inspiration from which other writings have sprung from. During that time, I was heavily influenced by the “book-to-film” era; specifically the Twilight period, and eventually then took it upon myself to read other books by Stephanie Meyers, discovering even more

movies and tv shows by other authors as well, such as The Vampire Diaries. What a lot of these books had in common was that they really appealed to my generation that was going through their coming of age in an unbelievable way that pushes the limitations of imagination, ideas, and lifestyles. It’s interesting to compare these popularized books as opposed to books from older generations, such as The Outsiders, where the bad boy rebellion theme really took the cake on teen appeal in the 80s. My guess was that CGI had come too far in mimicking realism that it would be almost dishonorable to not acknowledge the more fantasy and adventure books, like Harry Potter or Game Of Thrones in the movie industry. Of course, I knew that the more sexual aspects of these stories were probably the main reason for being so interested during the age that I was in the first place. But around 2017, my imagination had reached new horizons, and I felt insanely compelled to incorporate a lot of my “self-educated” findings into my first book. I am now the mind that I am today having learned about psychedelics, older culturally based traditions/practices, and the basic workings of newer technologies. It’s where I find much of my peace and seem to reside within a natural state of mind. And because I am the expressive type, I thought why not draw from my interests, and put them in writing? Now, while I do sort of like to decorate the things I write about for the sake of audience attention with the fantasy, sex, and adventure… sometimes the pre-pubescent hype doesn’t really do it for me and not just as a writer, but as someone who likes to see the same perspective and interests on other things in life, in others. This is why I want to become a teacher at some point in my life. I understand that a lot of the things I like to discuss and critically think about are kind of taboo in the sense that the more underrated topics are simply not taught as a part of a serious curriculum. Or at least until you hit college where the the professor dynamic is a bit more personal and more prone to depthy/open conversations. My youth felt cheated and let down by a lot of the political drama I’ve read up on during the years when I started to create high aspiring goals for myself. It had concerned me that the future I had envisioned for myself, could essentially be in the hands of leaders who didn’t have my best interest, safety, or well-being- which is a common issue for minorities. I’ve put a lot of emphasis on culturally based traditions, beliefs, and practices in my plots and rooted familiar modernism as underlying themes in the stories I write. I hope that maybe they could even be the catalyst to help solve real-world issues.

A few years ago, I attempted to make a book that was a series of short stories, with each chapter containing one story. My favorite one out of them all (out of all five), was titled Chronicles, that’s plot grazed the themes of the more official, incognito, and mysterious sides of scientific capitalism. I took that short story and turned it into the story- Archivals. I wanted to create a context where corporate systems are not only being challenged but are almost somewhat being secretly tested by smaller businesses that are the progressive “inventor” type. The atmosphere is risque and technical with some hints of sultry vibes. I really think this piece of writing could be put in the more top-tiering categories out of all of my other pieces just because it goes along with the same rhetoric that I’ve been pushing for years now in the most creative way, and because I wrote it for a t.v. screen. Each character essentially has a “line” that would be taken up by an actor. It has camera angling, actor queues, as well as a set and setting for each scene. This was a first for me though, technically writing a screenplay. I followed up as best as I could with the script layout and formatting but I couldn’t really help but make it my own and sort of add some extra detail and my own rendition on how specific I wanted it to be. The goal was to provide that feeling that the reader is almost reading a book with added character (or in this case, actor) gestures, movements, and body positioning, but to also really create that imagery of how each scene would roll through the perspective of a cinematic camera. I personally think it gives that backstage ambiance that’s new, industrially modern, and shoe-filling. So to be clear, there are similarities in structure that you would see in a professional script, but overall, this piece and the way it was written was my own. I am most proud of Archivals. But just to throw out there, if there were to be a second-best choice, it’d probably be the poem that had several movements, titled, ‘think medley…with like really deep meaning.’.