My
name is J. Evan Stuart and I've had a life-long love of books. Nothing was
better than getting lost in a story that would take me to faraway places and
send me on adventures with characters who became my friends.
When I was young,
I wanted to write the types of stories I loved to read, but school succeeded in
squashing my little dream. While I always received high marks on my writing,
having to constantly write on topics I wasn't really interested in made writing
in my free time not something I readily pursued. By the time I finished
college, one of my great joys was not having to write anything.
The
years passed and my career choices always had me being around kids. I was
tutoring a child one evening and was helping him with an assignment. He was
to come up with a few paragraphs to start a story and it had to contain
conflict. We came up with a scenario of a couple of high school boys having a
confrontation in a bathroom and an iPod ends up being dropped in a toilet. For
some reason the scene stuck with me long after the assignment was completed.
A
year later I was still thinking about and wondering who these two boys were and
what would happen next. I took up pen and paper to answer my questions, never
really thinking I was actually trying to write a story. But a story came and
for the last five years my pen has taken me on wonderful adventures and created
characters who have become my friends.
Over
the next few weeks I will be highlighting authors and their works that I have
enjoyed or that have inspired me. Feel free to visit the pages that highlight
my works in progress and follow me on Twitter for the latest updates on my
blog.
