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Aurelio O'Brien

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Aurelio O’Brien grew up in a blended family with seven siblings in the ideal suburbia of Sunnyvale, California.

With an aerospace engineer for a father and a family full of odd, creative, assertive, and clever siblings, there was no end to the fun and madness, and so, no shortage of material to later draw upon as a creative artist and writer.

Aurelio’s own odd mix of talents and interests led him to a successful career as an illustrator, animator, and graphic designer. In his mid-forties, he began a literary career as well with his first novel, EVE. This was soon followed by GENeration eXtraTERrestrial, I Was a Teenage Cheerleader, Family Trees, and finally, Forth & Back.

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Forth & Back

My newest novel is out:

Who is Alexander Chase? Or perhaps the question should be, when is Alexander Chase? Xander is lost in time and time is running out as he sifts through his own present, past, and future as well as the greater time-continuum for the meaning of life before his is finally snuffed out.

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Aurelio’s Quotes

“I do so much writing. But so much of it never goes anywhere, never sees any light of day. I suppose that's like gardening in the basement. I don't publish so much of what I write. I just seem to plow it back into the soil of what I write after it, rewriting and rewriting, thinking that somehow it gets better after the fifty-second-time around. I need to learn to abandon my writing. To let go of it. Dispose of it, like tissue.”
― J.R. Tompkins

tags: rewriting, writing

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“Writing is a lifelong disease.

Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you.”
― J.R. Tompkins

tags: disease, expression, legacy, longevity, words, words-carry-power, writing, writing-craft

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