Though I've always loved to read and write and earned a BA in English (with a minor in Fine Arts), I was on a writing hiatus, when I began Shamanic training with the Four Winds Society in 2009. It unexpectedly opened my creative floodgates and continued, as I progressed with the training (As of 2013, I am a certified Energy Healer). www.yogishaman.net
My archetypes, especially, that of the Lord of the Underworld (the Incan Emperor, Huascar), began to tell me stories in animation. So, for the first couple of years, Convergence was an animated screenplay.
After several nudges from my cherished writers' group, I changed it into a novel. And boom! In prose form, new dimensions expanded -- I could get inside characters' heads and describe my universe how I wanted. In short, my project became far more rich and rewarding. Meanwhile, my love of illustrating never waned, as you can see.
Most of all, I delight in crafting the language to resonate with lived-in experiences. Everyone has a backstory; old wounds and blind spots, as well as strengths. In addition, my characters are products of their culture and times -- whether they support the status quo or not. Finally, all beings have emerged from biologies, ecosystems and the massive, harmonic life-force flow.
In 10 years, I finished Convergence Book 1, Think Big, but after a few rejections, decided to take the advice that I kept hearing at Sci-Fi and Fantasy conferences. It goes like this: get shorter works published before pitching my epic trilogy, because publishers won't gamble on a large work from an unknown author.
Stay tuned for my spec short stories, inspired by my dreams.
My archetypes, especially, that of the Lord of the Underworld (the Incan Emperor, Huascar), began to tell me stories in animation. So, for the first couple of years, Convergence was an animated screenplay.
After several nudges from my cherished writers' group, I changed it into a novel. And boom! In prose form, new dimensions expanded -- I could get inside characters' heads and describe my universe how I wanted. In short, my project became far more rich and rewarding. Meanwhile, my love of illustrating never waned, as you can see.
Most of all, I delight in crafting the language to resonate with lived-in experiences. Everyone has a backstory; old wounds and blind spots, as well as strengths. In addition, my characters are products of their culture and times -- whether they support the status quo or not. Finally, all beings have emerged from biologies, ecosystems and the massive, harmonic life-force flow.
In 10 years, I finished Convergence Book 1, Think Big, but after a few rejections, decided to take the advice that I kept hearing at Sci-Fi and Fantasy conferences. It goes like this: get shorter works published before pitching my epic trilogy, because publishers won't gamble on a large work from an unknown author.
Stay tuned for my spec short stories, inspired by my dreams.