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The Jackass Factor...
As I wrap up Justin and Kirsten's story; as usual, I'm thinking ahead to the next book. "Jackass"... Jake's story.
If all you know of Jake is what you've read in the story of Dakota and Nicole... or even Dave and Shelly... you don't really know him. You know his bad side. You know the worst things he's ever done in his life. Just like all people, however, he is not completely defined by the worst things he's ever done.
Jake is a whole person and you get to know a more humane side of him in Justin and Kirsten's story. Justin is, after all, his twin brother. They live together. They've grown up together. Like many twins, they share things with one another that they never share with anyone else. They know one another better than anyone else knows them.
Justin doesn't know Jake completely... but do we ever really know anyone completely? Even ourselves?
Keeping in mind that Jake is the villain in these stories, I still have to make him realistic. The worst of villains have good people who love them. They must be, on some level, worth loving. They have motivators and priorities and pasts and hopes and desires just like everyone else.
"Jackass" will be a unique point of view of a broken man who, whether most people know it or not... laughs, cries, falls in love, hates, feels fierce loyalty and at the same time, an inescapable burning rage that drives him to do things he doesn't understand, but manages to justify to himself. It will be a story in which the hero and the villain are one in the same, in an internal and eternal death match.
It won't be short and quick. It will take some time to write and when I release it, it will be the complete story... beginning to end, in one book. It will be as long as it needs to be to do the story justice.
I am at once excited to get started, and completely frightened and intimidated by the task of creating this character as a full, rounded multifaceted man, rather than as the dark shadow in the background, as he has been up until now.
Wish me luck!!!
If all you know of Jake is what you've read in the story of Dakota and Nicole... or even Dave and Shelly... you don't really know him. You know his bad side. You know the worst things he's ever done in his life. Just like all people, however, he is not completely defined by the worst things he's ever done.
Jake is a whole person and you get to know a more humane side of him in Justin and Kirsten's story. Justin is, after all, his twin brother. They live together. They've grown up together. Like many twins, they share things with one another that they never share with anyone else. They know one another better than anyone else knows them.
Justin doesn't know Jake completely... but do we ever really know anyone completely? Even ourselves?
Keeping in mind that Jake is the villain in these stories, I still have to make him realistic. The worst of villains have good people who love them. They must be, on some level, worth loving. They have motivators and priorities and pasts and hopes and desires just like everyone else.
"Jackass" will be a unique point of view of a broken man who, whether most people know it or not... laughs, cries, falls in love, hates, feels fierce loyalty and at the same time, an inescapable burning rage that drives him to do things he doesn't understand, but manages to justify to himself. It will be a story in which the hero and the villain are one in the same, in an internal and eternal death match.
It won't be short and quick. It will take some time to write and when I release it, it will be the complete story... beginning to end, in one book. It will be as long as it needs to be to do the story justice.
I am at once excited to get started, and completely frightened and intimidated by the task of creating this character as a full, rounded multifaceted man, rather than as the dark shadow in the background, as he has been up until now.
Wish me luck!!!
