Why Aeternum?

So, here we are, after a six year process of writing this book (feel free to add another two years counting the time where it was rolling around in my head).

How did it begin?

I have been writing plays and screenplays for a number of years which was originally inspired out of an extra creativity beyond my work over the years as an actor. I have had some great success and have been very proud of this work (especially the pieces that actually ended up getting produced). I think I came to a wall, eventually, with these forms, though.

Since childhood, I have had a relentless, crazy, ridiculous, detailed imagination that never has stopped to this day. Of course, it has fueled my creativity all these years. And it fueled my writing of plays and screenplays. However, I think I arrived at a point where my relentless imagination was feeling constrained. You see, with these types of writing, you are unfortunately, by the necessity of what they need to be, shackled by conventions. You have to write a play so that it can be reasonably presented on a stage (usually, in today’s theatre world) with a compromised budget. And in film, there is more freedom for the imagination to roam but you still need to remember that, at the end of the day, you have to have a structured work that can fit within the limitations of a 1.5 to 2 hour film.

But in creating a piece of prose. A novel. The imagination can literally run endlessly. At the end of the day, you have to have a structured story and not just chaotic musings from your imagination. Your mind can run anywhere. Possibilities are endless. There are no limitations. The epicness of my imagination was suddenly stimulated and so… I chose to write my own novel.

At some point a hypothetical question was raised in my mind: What if living energy was passed on from one being to another through all of time and what if, in the unlimited capacity of the brain, you were aware of every life you ever lived from the first existence of life?

And “Aeternum” was born.