Tyler’s Comments (group member since Mar 17, 2014)

Tyler’s comments from the Discussion with Christopher Mechling - Peter: The Untold True Story group.

What are your viewpoints on life, death, and immortality, especially when writing?

Knowing that Barrie wrote for a lost friend, trying to maintain his life in the stories of Pan, I find it interesting that we choose to create fictional worlds and characters to mask, or reveal, our thoughts and opinions.

I have always had a fascination with Peter Pan. As a child, I felt more comfortable in nature, like that was were I belonged. The idea of never growing up and not having a typical home appealed to me in a way that most children (and adults) generally scoff at. I would love to read this novel because I feel it will add to my love and adoration for this story.

Thank you for this opportunity! Best of luck!

I, too, can very easily relate.

Hardship: a compound word. Beginning with the word "hard", a difficulty, and ending with a means of transportation, "ship", for us to find something to carry us away.

As many times as we find ourselves drowning in a lake of life's uncertainties, we have to understand that we are not alone. Perhaps, the world we belong to is not above the surface, and it was our job all along to let go and sink into a new, unfamiliar world, only to discover it for ourselves and others like us. Easier said than done, I assure you, but it is not impossible. Reality is harsh, life is cruel, death is inevitable, and magic... well, magic is what we make it. The worlds of Hogwarts and Neverland may be just words on a page, but it takes our imaginations and love for the characters to make them come alive. As Rowling once said, "We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better". Books are just other people's imaginations written on paper. So pick them up, dive into them, don't think twice, and enjoy the journey. Peter is real, as is Harry, we are them, and they are us. Music and words are created to move us, mentally, physically, to transcend our current state, and that is truly magical.

We use these things as an escape... and before we know it, we can't find that magic anymore. Whether another book series can't live up to it, or maybe we've worn down the pages of our old stories; but those stories never really leave us. They're always there, always a part of us, and that is something that we, as readers, as writers, as creators of unknown worlds and journeys, strive to find.

You're never alone.
Read. Listen. Create.