Ask the Author: Darius Andaya
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Darius Andaya
A Taekwon-Do Instructional Book and Darryl's next book.
Darius Andaya
I get to work on my own time and make what could be unproductive time, dull times, productive and exhilarating, even if its just on my own world.
Darius Andaya
The old Star Wars Cannon and I will train to use a lightsaber. With the force or not, I will learn to use that weapon.
Darius Andaya
I sleep it off. My subconscious usually helps me out and I wake up with the answer.
Darius Andaya
Start. Commit to it and begin. It will evolve and you might not even end up with the original idea but you wont finish it if you dont start it.
Darius Andaya
Feelings inspires me to write. It could come from an immense and intense feeling of love, sadness, happiness, anger, pity, etc. When I get these, I am one of those who instead of saying it, I write. When I wrote I Too Can Be Special!, it was out of an intense feeling of inspiration and love.
Darius Andaya
My son, Darryl, who has downsyndrome and also illustrated this book. His speech difficulties makes it hard for him to communicate and I thought since he can't talk well, what if I talk for him. The book is all about his thoughts as I understand it. I went a step further and communicated it in poetry form. As William Wordsworth said, poetry is the spontaneous flow of powerful feelings. I've never met anyone with so much overflow of positive and inspirational feelings.
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