Damian is a mild mannered accountant currently residing in New York who spends much of his free time dreaming up other worlds. His goals as an indie author include providing weekly content on his site DamianMyronWrites.com as well as publishing at least one book every year.
Long Version
If you’re reading this you probably opened this page by accident. It’s okay, everyone makes mistakes.
Oh. You’re still here. Well. I guess I should tell you a little about myself.
I’ve always dreamed of being a writer. When I was kid, adults would ask me if they knew what I wanted to be when I grew up, before quickly adding it was okay if I didn’t. And I’d think, that’s really nice of you not to put a 6 year old on the spot like that, but I already know. I’m going to be a writer.
Most of my alone time has been spent trying to fulfill that six year old’s dream. There are times I sink every moment I can spare writing, and sometimes I’m a little moody when I’m asked to sacrifice this time to be social.
When I was a junior in high school, my mom bought me Dante’s Inferno, and it changed my life.
The story itself was one of the most creative ideas I’d read to that point. A man travels through hell as the first stage of his journey to be reunited with his love in heaven. Each layer of hell he passed through had different souls being tortured in manners fitting of the sins they had committed.
But even with the concept having already grabbed me, to the point where I was sneaking reading another page wherever I could (even in class when the teacher wasn’t looking, or at work), that level of creativity wasn’t enough for Dante (or the translators), because the copy I had rhymed throughout the story.
This. Was. Mind-blowing.
This book opened my eyes to what writing could be. Not only could a story be limitless in terms of what you could imagine and put down on the page, but the ingenuity with which you told that story was boundless.
This book fostered my spirit for experimentation to see what worked best for the story. Whenever I sat down to write something new, I’d think something like “What if it was told from the villains point of view?” or “What if I tried blending these two genres together?” and I’d challenge myself to do it.
This adventurous approach has led me to try my hand at a wide array of genres. I love reading a variety of stories, and that makes me want to write them. I primarily write fiction with a more than healthy dose of horror mixed in, but I’ve also pushed myself to things out of my comfort zone, like mysteries, sci-fi and fantasy.
For years I had struck a balance with writing and the rest of my life. I still wanted to live the dream six year old me had, but the idea of being a starving artist didn’t appeal to me at all, so I got a job behind a desk that afforded me enough free time to write when I wanted to.
My decision to make a career as an author began in 2018. The prior year, I found out I had Lyme disease, and because it had gone untreated, it severely affected my mobility, to the point where for a month I needed a cane just to walk, and eventually, required surgery.
While I was recovering from the operation, I had a lot of time for reflection. Bureaucratic red tape was keeping me from returning to the work I had chosen over my passion, and I was forced to ask myself: what was it I really wanted to do with my life.
And that answer still hadn’t changed.
So I’m embarking on an adventure of my own into the world of self publishing. I plan to release content weekly on my site, and publish at least one book every year.