Christopher Stocking's Blog

The manner in which we operate our lives can be based on two functions: Definitions and expectations. This may be putting it simply, rationalizing the world in such a way as to seemingly ignore its complexities. However, to view the ways in which we function can, essentially, be boiled down to these two points.

First, we must observe definitions. Without understanding exactly why what we’re doing is what it is, we have no way of understanding its credibility or its value. By providing a label...

“…we cannot exclude the possibility that there might be some other form of matter, distributed almost uniformly throughout the universe, that we have not yet detected and that might still raise the average density of the universe up to the critical value needed to halt the expansion… This should not unduly worry us: by that time, unless we have colonized beyond the Solar System, mankind will long since have died out, extinguished along with our sun!”

– A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking...

Hello, it’s been a while. It’s interesting how quickly time flashes by in the individual instances of our lives. While one moment seems to drag on, collectively they slip away. Days mold into weeks and into months.

However, what I find to be more interesting are the ideas of what mold us into a population–a collective being of thoughts, emotions, and beliefs. When history is made, people come alive in such varied ways. Love and hate clash into what appears to be a battle between good and evil...

When I started writing some years ago–writing seriously, that is–I was, admittedly and not surprisingly, naively curious about, well, everything related to writing. I gravitated to bigger writing blogs and came upon one in particular full of budding writers thirsty for advice on how to be a successful author. The blog’s owner, who was plenty experienced, sure, preached with utmost certainty that if we wanted to be successful writers that we absolutely needed to have a blog as a platform to re...

Happiness. We put so much pressure on that single word, dont we?

Its all too easy to get stuck in this mental cycle of thinking happiness will magically arrive oncewe get something we thought we wanted more than anything elsewhen we accomplishsomething we worked our asses off to get.

Ill be happy when I get that promotion.

Ill be happy when I buy that house.

Ill be happy when I write that book.

Do we feel happy after obtaining or accomplishing any of these things? Not for very long. Likecomin...

Writing is an act of intimacy between the author and the reader. A disingenuous word stands out andcredibility is lost. Too many people aspire to write for the wrong reasons. Often times a person wishes towrite as a means of sharing a different passion entirely; being a love for music, the need to share onesown story, or to satisfy the wish for fame and fortune. The love to write should satisfy the need to tella story, regardless of the subject; and, to do so in the cadence of a dance where t...

Ive called myself a writer for 6 years. It took me about 3 years to realize that writer is synonymous with crazy. Back before I donned the writer label, I wrote a mystery about a girl who marries a guy with split personalities. I dont remember much about writing this manuscript, except that I did it in my parents basement on an ancient computer that was eventually fried by lightning. That book is still around on one of my flash drives. Sometimes I open it and read a few pagesand maybe its not...

You may notice a couple new things around here.

1) A brand new, dark theme to fit my style of writing that has emerged over the past few months. Things are getting darker with each word, friends. But what lies beyond that darkness, deep within the story, are themes that I love to show. Power. Struggle. The consequences of intolerance and, perhaps most importantly of all, personal introspection to try and become something better than we are. There is light in every darkness, although it may of...

In what little wisdom and intellect I have managed to obtain in my 24 years alive, I believe I have discovered that I am somewhat of a pessimist.By dwelling on the darker side of the world I find I am able to uncover the deep contrasts of various aspects of society and culture. I’m able to learn and explore on a deeper level, which I can then apply to my writing.

Now, as I searched for a suitable image for this post–of which I really couldn’t find any–I happened upon several quotes relating to...

I’m excited to announce that my YA book,His Only Star, is being relaunched! The book has been combed through and given a stylish new cover to really highlight this tragic story.

His Only Star is one of my personal favorite books of mine because it really has the most of me in it. When this book was initially published, I recall saying how I’m convinced I was a different person when I wrote that. Something about this story really flowed and resonated with me, and, while I’ve loved everything I’...