I recently asked myself what inspired me to become a writer and tell fantasy stories. I remember growing up with the classics, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter, all these were immensely popular when I was growing up. I can say this was the first era of inspirational stories that brought me into the world of story telling. Also there's one thing that has probably been my biggest inspiration for most of my life and that's the show Avatar: the Last Airbender. I could write for days about everything I love about this show but I think what really made me fall in love with it was how deep it was. How it combined a lot of different sources of inspiration to create a whole series that worked on almost every single level. It's bursting at the seems with eastern philosophy, social politics, and unique psychology. If you look deep enough there's even meta commentaries. I'll definitely talk about this show more on this blog in the future. I also grew up reading comic books from Marvel and DC. I recently heard someone describe the Marvel fandom as a religion and I could do nothing but agree with that statement. I think I was indoctrinated into that Marvel cult at a young age and now I couldn't get out if I wanted to. An important moment in my life was when the first avengers movie came out. I probably saw that movie 26 times in the theatres. I thought it was so good that I just wanted to watch it over and over again until I memorized every line of dialogue and every camera shot. Like I just went crazy for a while. At the time I thought that telling a story with that many main characters interacting with each other was impossible for super hero movies. Impossible until someone did it. Eventually I put it together that someone gets paid to make these movies and that's when I decided to go to school for filmmaking. I needed a career somehow. It put me on the path to now. As some more modern sources of inspiration I like the show Game of Thrones even though I became a fan of it after the show ended. I just bought DVDS and binged watched all the episodes. I also like the Netflix show the Witcher, a show called Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, as well as the reboot of Voltron legendary defender. As for what inspired me to write the Emilaba stories that I'm currently working on I had a million little pieces of inspiration that I latched on to and it take too long to go over them now. But this post has been a good place to start.