LOST ImAGINATIONS

Dear world-wide-web,

Welcome to my reality of LOST ImAGINATIONS. Let me begin by saying I hate to blog. The mere mention of the word brings to mind crying teenagers, and every piece of drama in their lives I could care less about. With that said, this blog is not a journal, a diary, or a collage of photos presenting the weird faces and activities of a child that me and my wife find to be the most adorable since (fill in cutest thing you have ever seen here). Instead, this will be a testing ground for (pause for dramatic affect) writing! Who would have guessed it? That's right, words in the form of thoughts that tell an imaginative story where the reader and author work together to create an elaborate world where there was nothing before. It's a lot like Pottermore, but not nearly as cool, or lame, depending on who you are.

LOST ImAGINATIONS will be used as a sound board for a book (a trilogy actually) I have been working on for about four years called "The Chronicles of the Last Liturian". The first book is called "The Diary of Oliver Lee", the second is called "Rustling of Fallen Leaves", and the last is "Love and Fear". At this point you probably have two questions: (1) Why am I doing this, and (B) who is Oliver Lee?

First, why am I doing this? The first book "The Diary of Oliver Lee" has been complete for over a year. For that year it has sat idly on my laptop, back-up jump drive, and printed manuscript untouched and unread by the public. Why not get it published? Because I work too fast. While working on the Liturian Trilogy I have been working on other writing projects and marketing other novels. So, I decided to finish all three books before beginning publication. I am currently in the middle of writing book two. The only problem is while finishing the books I am not receiving any feedback about what works in the novel and what does not work. It was posted on authonomy.com, but I took it down. Mostly because it was a site of authors for authors to speak to other authors about their work when I really want to hear from the people who would eventually be reading it; you. So, that is the answer to number one, but who is Oliver Lee?

My email address for the past four years has been oliverlee2007 and since then people have been asking me who is Oliver Lee (not to mention I have gotten emails addressed Dear Oliver). Oliver Lee is not real. He is a fictional character I created that has the ability to Stream stories from the thoughts of those around him. He tells the stories for those who can not tell their story themselves. "The Diary of Oliver Lee" tells of his life, his ability, the stories he has collected over the years, and his search for the first individuals he Streamed as a child. His journey is written in a diary and read by a young boy in Green Town, Illinois after finding it in an Antique Book Store. What is unique about the story, is that it is a book of separate short stories, telling different lives and events from people across the country, while remaining connected and interpreted by one consistent character, Oliver Lee. I got the idea from Ray Bradbury's "The Illustrated Man", a collection of short stories that come to life one after the other on the boy of a man covered from head to toe in tattoos. It's a unique form of story telling that has not been attempted by another author (as far as I know of).

Here is how the blog will work. I will begin telling the story from the beginning of "The Diary of Oliver Lee". Every few days I will add more of the story to the blog. As the days and months continue so will the trilogy, moving from "The Diary of Oliver Lee" to "Rustling of Fallen Leaves" before reaching the final novel "Love and Fear". The cool thing is you can change the story! If you read a part of the novel and have a suggestion on what could work better, leave a comment about what was good, bad, or was unclear. Feedback from you is what I want so I know what to change and keep in the story. So the more feedback the better.

With that said, and with no further ado (if there are no further questions), welcome to LOST ImAGINATIONS.