Keith Blenman
I've always had an overactive imagination. Like, I remember reading "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" in middle school and it being the first story where I truly identified with a character. "That guy walking down the street, pretending to be driving a tank? That's me! That's exactly it." I've always been like that. When I was a child I'd talk to rocks. My imaginary friends were an entire village that lived in our mail chute.
I think I was twelve or thirteen when I really caught the writing bug. I always wrote and made little comics and stuff, but yeah, around that age I started taking it seriously. Where my friends were playing sports and reading comics, I still had all these worlds and characters in my head, and felt compelled to get them out. I was secretive about it though. Like I told my dad I needed a new notebook and some pens for school. I made him take me to the store. I spent forever picking out exactly the right notebook. Mead. Mint green. Three subjects. Two hundred pages. And as soon as we got home I went up to my bedroom and started writing a book. Twenty five years later, I still have it. I have a little tattoo of the main character from that story. Anyway, it was such a cool experience, writing that story for six months. Channeling my imagination and finding a format for it that didn't have any boundaries. I was a little kid who discovered a secret playground nobody else knew about. One I've never found an exit from. So I've just stayed there and I'm still playing today.
I think I was twelve or thirteen when I really caught the writing bug. I always wrote and made little comics and stuff, but yeah, around that age I started taking it seriously. Where my friends were playing sports and reading comics, I still had all these worlds and characters in my head, and felt compelled to get them out. I was secretive about it though. Like I told my dad I needed a new notebook and some pens for school. I made him take me to the store. I spent forever picking out exactly the right notebook. Mead. Mint green. Three subjects. Two hundred pages. And as soon as we got home I went up to my bedroom and started writing a book. Twenty five years later, I still have it. I have a little tattoo of the main character from that story. Anyway, it was such a cool experience, writing that story for six months. Channeling my imagination and finding a format for it that didn't have any boundaries. I was a little kid who discovered a secret playground nobody else knew about. One I've never found an exit from. So I've just stayed there and I'm still playing today.
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