Good Day,

Before I get started with anything, I would like to mention that before you read this book, you can absolutely go read the dossier chapter first. In fact, I would recommend it. It's in the extras all the way at the bottom and it's spoiler free profiles on all the main characters in the book. Frank's journal, however, does contain spoilers so hold off on that one. (Will be added later). Other than that, the dossier will give you some background on the characters, who they are and what they do. I believe it's some nice added context to the characters that will give you a better understanding of them. If that tickles your fancy. Anyways, let's get started.

First and foremost, I'm Nick and thank you for clicking on my book. I hope you stay because I think it's pretty good and I'm very proud of it. I'm not really sure where this goes or how far I intend to take this book (and the next one) but I guess I'll find out when the time comes. I fully intend to have this storyline fully written and completed, but what I am uncertain about is if I will actually try to push this out and get it published and all that jazz. Perhaps one day, because I'm sure that is expensive and college costs a lot of fucking money.

This all started about 3 years ago when basically the thought crossed my mind that "I could probably write a good TV show." I was always a very imaginative person and had some characters that I loosely whipped up in my head before that. Primarily, a character that I would include into a different, previously existing narrative, such as Marvel stuff. So when this idea of creating my own story came about, I already had things in my head to go off of. At the time I was going to a local community college at home and the drive to class everyday was obnoxiously long and very traffic heavy, so I ended up daydreaming during that drive everyday about this. Pretty quickly things started to fall in to place, and I thought "Fuck it, imma write a book." I wrote one chapter then didn't touch it for a year. Literally. But I still thought about it often and kept on saying that I would write in it again one day.

That following year I moved away from home and had an even longer commute to classes now because I had a lot of walking and a lot of bus riding, which meant a lot of bus waiting. So my daydreaming picked up even more and I had many, many epiphany's about plot points and characters. Whenever I thought of something for the book, it was never me sitting down and thinking "what is gonna happen here." It was always completely random and it would just pop into my head and I would be like "oh shit that's good." That started happening a lot which lead me to actually start to think that the storyline was somewhat decent. So I started to write a little again. But still, something was always stopping me from really taking off with this and being super motivated. Looking back, I think it seemed daunting to me. In the way that there was so much I wanted to say and so many scenes and chapters and everything. And sitting at the start of everything made it look like that light at the end of the tunnel was too far away.

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Despite that, I wrote a few more chapters and kept pushing forward, even if it was a chapter every month (sometimes 2 months). That kept going until finally I had a moment where I was like, "oh shit, I actually have a decent amount of content" and that light at the end of the tunnel all the sudden seemed much closer. Not too long after that, I finished up act 1 and published it on here. It was slightly embarrassing, and that I can only partly explain. Some of it comes from that this is kind of a "fantasy" book. When you read it you'll see that that's not really the case, but when someone asks me what my book is about and the brief synopsis is "team of people with superpowers fighting bad guy" it makes it seem like it. That's not what I want my book to be. I want it to be much more deep than that. Ideally, I see it as a war story that really dives into the psyche of the characters, the dynamic between them and the drama. The "powers" aspect only serves to up the stakes. Increase the scale, if you will.

The other part of the embarrassment I can't explain. I've heard other people read out my writing to me, and it was like hearing your voice in a video. Immediate self-consciousness. It made me feel like it was corny, or nerdy, or something like that. Especially when you send the link to it in your friends group chat to have everyone read it and someone takes and screenshot of a page and sends it back with "wtf is this lol" (fuck you grace). But I stuck it out and ultimately, I waited to have some friends read it and tell me what they thought. If they thought it was good, I would keep going. If they thought it was bad, I'd probably still finish the book, but privately, in my own little word document that I have. Until I decided fuck what everyone else thinks. I like my book and that's all that matters. Let that serve as a message of self-confidence I guess.

At the end of the day, my reason for writing this is because I want to. I've come to realize that I take pride that I can realistically call myself an author and it basically is true. That's what I want most of all. I want to be able to have that title so that maybe one day when I'm older and I have kids of my own, they can go tell their friends "my dad is an author." It allows me to leave something tangible behind in this world. Something that will forever have my name on it and will be a product of my imagination. Who knows. Maybe this does blow up and becomes really popular. Maybe I get it published and write even more books. Maybe I become a household name author and my books get made into movies and whatnot. But really, all that matters to me is that I discovered that I really have a passion for this stuff. That I can say from now on that I wrote a book and I am an author. And nobody can take that away from me.

With that being said, if you made it this far down my yap sesh, I do hope you read my book and I hope you enjoy it. It may not be done yet but I will be adding to it and will absolutely see this through til the end. I would absolute love to hear from people if you decide that you want to make some comments. It may take a while for me to see it because I don't get notifications for it and I don't really check for them either but I promise it's not because I'm ignoring you. Unless I am.

Til next time,

Nick.