Writing and Reading

No cryin’. I promise. That’s how I roll, bebbies. I’m just here to present the music for y’all–you start the waterworks on your own, man….

For those that have been with good ol’ W.W. (Wretched Writer)  from the very beginning, you probably already know how much of a softie he is. Sometimes he’s a big baby! Don’t blame him, though….

Emotion is a strong force in writing, and it keeps him going. It reminds him of his dreams, all the loss, all the gain. Everything. Just like all of that drives him forward in his own life, so does his writing drive forward.

I imagine that’s mostly the same for any other writer. You need to tap into those private, deep, intense emotions–you’ve seen his rage already, yes, but you definitely haven’t seen his sadness. No.

On the brighter side, W.W. has definitely found his touch with that soft part of his heart a lot easier, because as many of you might know….

THE MORON’S IN LOVE!

Yes, you heard me. Love. Now me? I ain’t no middle-of-the-night ballad-playing DJ. My shit’s alternative, rock, hard rock, hip hop. Word. But to pay a little homage to our Wretched Writer, the king of the castle, the Lord of Tacos, the Purveyor of Pickle Juices…. Well, this selection’s for him. To remind him to keep writing, keep feeling. Keep moving forward. Enjoy, man.

The introductions continue, my friends–got another character sketch for you. This one’s an endearing sketch for me as it relates to me on one level. He’s not a ’super’ protagonist like Alexandra Glade or Kyan Tanaka. Nor is he simply a supporting character. On the contrary…he’s very crucial to the story of THE CAIN LETTERS.

His name is…

MARCUS BRENNAN

Born in Chicago, Illinois, reckless teenager raked with drugs, booze and some trouble with the law, Marcus then grew up a little to make his life something more than a ritualistic teenage cliche, finding God, joining the church Advent Divine and studying Youth Ministry in college. No longer a teenager, but a man, he hungers to understand the reasons behind evil, the reasons why we all fall into that stupor of addiction and sin–where it all comes from.

Being Youth Pastor of Advent Divine has its challenges for him, in that with his personality and his past comes a certain fascination for occult mysticisms and mysteries, vampirism, the supernatural. He adores those types of films as well…but he’s careful not to worship any of it. A man of God, he is: he only seeks to find an answer as to why the world is what it is. Man can face evil better if man can understand evil better.

Upon discovering an ancient text from a scholar living in Chicago, a man by the name of Theodore Strang, he’s suddenly thrust into a deadly race for his life, protecting this infernal manuscript for some strange reason, a manuscript later to be titled as THE CAIN LETTERS.

No matter how hard he fights it, no matter how much he resists–for his life remains in danger–he again hungers to seek the truth within the pages of that book. To find the answer. The answer behind evil. And how to conquer it.