Ask the Author: Micah Chaim Thomas
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Micah Chaim Thomas
You could have done much better.
Micah Chaim Thomas
I'd like to go somewhere warm, near the water, where a fall festival brings lights and song and a kiss, warm and tasting of mulled wine.
Micah Chaim Thomas
Thanks for asking. My most interesting character is featured in The Little Demons Inside and makes an appearance in a short in Evidence of Changes. Denzel is a washed up, parapsychology academic in the line of Timothy Leary and Carlos Castaneda, except he's unbelievably bitter. Imagine Egon Spengler got picked up by a private sector research lab for his work as a Ghostbuster, put in his time and intellectual property, but never got his due recognition, and then was edged out by young MBAs that didn't even care about the miracle and turned out products.
As for the character I find most interesting in literature, Leto II Atreides of Herbert's Dune series. Leto makes a sacrifice that is more meaningful to me than the Christian mythos. Christ suffers for a little bit, then rejoins his immortal cohorts in the divine. Leto condemns himself to the loss of all versions of a future where he could ever find even humble human happiness, takes on a long future of physical torment, and an ever corroding loss of human thought and empathy, to become a monster, and to die, permanently, to better the world and the future through necessary evil, with certainty. And he was still petty, capricious, fallible, and given to weirdness. Fascinating character.
As for the character I find most interesting in literature, Leto II Atreides of Herbert's Dune series. Leto makes a sacrifice that is more meaningful to me than the Christian mythos. Christ suffers for a little bit, then rejoins his immortal cohorts in the divine. Leto condemns himself to the loss of all versions of a future where he could ever find even humble human happiness, takes on a long future of physical torment, and an ever corroding loss of human thought and empathy, to become a monster, and to die, permanently, to better the world and the future through necessary evil, with certainty. And he was still petty, capricious, fallible, and given to weirdness. Fascinating character.
Micah Chaim Thomas
My advice of aspiring writers is to survive. Take your knocks. Push through the pain, feeling every moment of the way, with that red recording light on at all times. Keep living, keep writing, wrestle your demons, ignore the light at the end of the tunnel, make this thing yours, grow strong in the dark, and stay true. Then, at some point, write something, anything, then write something else. Don't cycle endlessly on a work. Yeah?
Micah Chaim Thomas
There's few alive that aren't armchair quarterbacks and back seat drivers, claiming they know how to set the world right. I wanted to explore what happens when you get to heaven, when you get to call the shots.
Micah Chaim Thomas
I am so very angry. I'm angrier than I am sad, and I'm always sad. I want to punch the world in the face. I want to hold the world and kiss its tears away. I'm a writer. I don't need inspiration.
Micah Chaim Thomas
I am writing a direct sequel to The Little Demons Inside. The thing aims to be sublime, a treat for the aesthete, but, when the smoke settles, there's likely to be quite a few bodies. Pyrokinesis problems, yes? I'm chasing something here that I hope will delight you.
Micah Chaim Thomas
I had misfiring false starts as early as 18 when I was a street kid in LA and got a job writing treatments. That didn't pan out. Then I had another false start in my early 20s with a graphic novel in Chicago that was never finished being illustrated. Yet another false start in my mid 20s, coauthoring screenplays with a philosophy professor. I barely started anything, and didn't complete a thing between 25-35, then it clicked. I had a novel. So ~3 years.
Micah Chaim Thomas
From the first day you can remember, there is someone telling you how the world is and what to do about it. A barrier layer between your direct experience and the mind behind your eyes is formed through interpretation and analogy. Taste this, it tastes like something else. Don't touch, its hot and hot is like hurts. When I write, none of that has to be true. Anything is possible and you answer to no one in your exploration.
Micah Chaim Thomas
I stop writing for 10 years.
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