My Philosophy

Why do I write?

1. Escape as a form of understanding

Am I writing to get rich? No. Will I be mad if I become financially stable in the process? Also no. The main reason I write used to be to escape. Especially when I was younger. Now? It’s more nuanced. The only way I can continue escaping through prose is if I can poetically allude metaphors about myself, my surroundings or society.

2. Attention

I would be lying if I didn’t admit this. As would any author. I want my books to sell across the globe. I want to be a best-seller. I want to outsell Stephen King. Those are big shoes to fill, and those shoes didn’t stomp far from where my little feet stomped up here in Maine. However, it’s not attention for myself. Its attention for these characters I’ve created. My characters will always have to walk the lines of Morality VS Mortality.

I may lose some readers along the way. For those of you that stay? I promise my books will hold as much hidden truth and meaning as they, and you deserve.

Best Regards,

Michael Barela.