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Timothy Frojd

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St Helier, Jersey

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Fantasy, Science Fiction, Paranormal

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Orson Scott Card

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I was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, but grew up in Sweden. The belonging to two nationalities, and to none, were what made me become the person i am today. Early on in my life I started enjoying books, and probably exhausted the local library on their selection of books for young hungry readers. From this love of fiction came a passion for writing stories of my own. Whenever we got writing assignments from school, I churned out at least 30-50 pages, whereas the others would mostly hand in one page.
When I was 16, our class was given an assignment to write a story about a historical period. The premise was at least one page, and then the teacher looked at me and said "No more than 25 pages, please!" I knew I couldn't keep that promise. At I was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, but grew up in Sweden. The belonging to two nationalities, and to none, were what made me become the person i am today. Early on in my life I started enjoying books, and probably exhausted the local library on their selection of books for young hungry readers. From this love of fiction came a passion for writing stories of my own. Whenever we got writing assignments from school, I churned out at least 30-50 pages, whereas the others would mostly hand in one page.
When I was 16, our class was given an assignment to write a story about a historical period. The premise was at least one page, and then the teacher looked at me and said "No more than 25 pages, please!" I knew I couldn't keep that promise. At that point in time I had been playing a game, by Microprose, called Pirates. It was a pretty in-depth game for its time. I decided to use one of the eras from the game for my assignment. I decided for it to be played out during the 1640's, which was the height of the 30 year war. The pirate captain, whom I chose to name James Best, sailed the ship, called The Black Panther, around the Caribbean and plundered the Spanish ships and towns. The story ended after James Best had rescued his crew from imprisonment in a Spanish dungeon, following a botched raid on the town Campeche. James first orders the remainder of his crew to sail around the peninsular and meet him on the other side. He then sets about freeing his imprisoned crew. Taking them from dungeon amidst fighting off Spanish soldiers, he gets them out into the jungle, where lots of dangers lurk, in the form of natives, wild animals, and disease. In the end, James Best staggers out onto the beach on the other side of the peninsular, only to discover that he is the only person that has survived.
Thus was born the idea of James Best. James stayed in my head after that, and I wanted to write more about him. Who was he? I needed to find out. The essay was well received by our teacher, who didn't berate me for breaking the requested barrier of 25 pages.
Around about that time, Swedish television started showing Blackadder. I loved it. The different historical eras told with tongue in cheek humor. I wanted to do something similar, but more serious. I wanted James Best to end up in different historical eras. The answer to this (remember that I was only 16 at the time) was alien abduction. Yes, the good old alien abduction ploy. He got abducted from the beach where he had emerged from the jungle, and ended up in France during the French Revolution, then during WWII, then in our current time.
But I wasn't done with him, or to be more correct, he wasn't done with me. James Best lived in my head. He told me that he had a story to tell me, and it wasn't the story that I had written, almost but not quite. I listened to the story, and thought that it would make great literature. The problem of that time was that all I owned was a Typewriter. I wrote several drafts of James' story, but in the end I never managed to finish it. I kept getting bogged down by typewriter supplies running out, and then they stopped producing the parts that I needed. I feared that I would never get to write the story. Then PCs started to become a whole lot cheaper and better, and I purchased one, along with a word processing program. I started writing again, and I think I must have started the story at least a hundred times before giving up on it. I just didn't like the beginning of it. If I couldn't get past the beginning, how could I ever get the whole story done?
But by then, I was at University, and was instead bogged down with writing academic papers instead of fiction. But James Best stayed within my mind, and kept poking me, wanting his story to be told.
But I couldn't write the story. I had too much else going on. I studied sociology, Maths, Physics, Anthropology, Environmental Science, History, Archaeology, Psychology, and it all seemed like it would take ...more

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