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Ben Umstead


http://chinamademypants.blogspot.com
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Update: Back in the states. This place is pretty dead, but I'll still post stories here when I have them.

Please visit me at:

http://chinamademypants.blogspot.com

I am a storyteller in any and all forms... Filmmaking, writing, drawing, talking... The usual struggling artist type.
I write in a somewhat pessimistic, post-modern voice, sometimes with a slight retro, Bradburian clip. Sometimes it can be quite abstract. Sometimes fragmented.
But please don't let this lead you to believe I am a gloomy gus... I am actually quite goofy in person.

Back tracking to my youth... I was writing before I could read. Is that a cliche? You tell me...
Between 3 and 12 I was the innocent. I had my own voice turned up loud and clear. A voice not yet tainted by others. I wrote dozens of short stories and comics. I was blind to what others said. I had a fever. I was furious in my output. I was happy. I was learning.
As a teen, I struggled and I copied. I wrote half novels in favorite universes or knock off lands. I thought, "the longer the story, the better!" Yeah right...
Eventually I grew out of this and am standing where I am now...

...On the edge of one of those proverbial cliffs, with my own voice tucked neatly under my arm, looking down into a swirling abyss.
I want to take the leap...



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