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The Animal Release
This is the fist novel that I wrote titled The Animal. This is a suspenseful story about a group of people struggling to find purpose in their lives, when they believe their careers are in place.
Terry Jones was living what seemed to be a normal life. With a steady job at a oil company that promised huge career advancements. Everything changes for him in an instant when he starts having regular periods of blackness. Time that is being lost and he starts wondering if this could mean a split personality disorder. Terry begins to remember past experiences which before had been erased from his mind. Those memories suggested he was experimented on as a kid in the days following his father's murder.
At the same time Detective Dennis Smith follows a murderer's path through New York City. This is one of the most difficult cases of his career yet. While trying to find the killer responsible for a gruesome murder, he keeps having disturbing memories about his shadowed past. The path he follows leads him to places he never knew existed, and a discovery of incredible magnitude.
Terry and Dennis are sent on an amazing journey through terror, danger, and eventually love to discover the truth. Not only about their pasts, but also discovering who they really are as people.
Terry Jones was living what seemed to be a normal life. With a steady job at a oil company that promised huge career advancements. Everything changes for him in an instant when he starts having regular periods of blackness. Time that is being lost and he starts wondering if this could mean a split personality disorder. Terry begins to remember past experiences which before had been erased from his mind. Those memories suggested he was experimented on as a kid in the days following his father's murder.
At the same time Detective Dennis Smith follows a murderer's path through New York City. This is one of the most difficult cases of his career yet. While trying to find the killer responsible for a gruesome murder, he keeps having disturbing memories about his shadowed past. The path he follows leads him to places he never knew existed, and a discovery of incredible magnitude.
Terry and Dennis are sent on an amazing journey through terror, danger, and eventually love to discover the truth. Not only about their pasts, but also discovering who they really are as people.
Shakespeare: A Surprising Aid
At the beginning of this semester, I was disappointed with the mandatory Shakespeare class I needed to take. Before, I had always begrudged reading anything by Shakespeare. But after taking the class, reading six of the plays, and learning all the complicated components included in his writing, it is no wonder I never liked the plays before when I would barely be reading the material.
I even am starting to use some of the ideas and tools in my own writing; like trying to mix in the comic elements in between the intensely dramatic scenes in order to lighten the load for the reader. Another thing I have discovered is that I have been trying to give certain characters idiolects. I don't know if this will work, or if anyone would even notice something like that, but its certainly adds extra significance to the writing.
I even am starting to use some of the ideas and tools in my own writing; like trying to mix in the comic elements in between the intensely dramatic scenes in order to lighten the load for the reader. Another thing I have discovered is that I have been trying to give certain characters idiolects. I don't know if this will work, or if anyone would even notice something like that, but its certainly adds extra significance to the writing.
