Crafting Stories, Shaping Worlds. For me, some of the greatest excitement is writing a new story. It's tough to stay focused on the story at hand because there is always a new idea brewing in the back of my mind! I talk about that and more in my newsletter, which you can join by visiting my website: adamroachbooks.com, I'll even throw in a FREE novel and novella! You can also follow me on social: IG: instagram.com/authoradamroach/ FB: facebook.com/authoradamroach IT ALL STARTED WHEN… My daughter had an imaginary friend when she was about 2 and would always tell us the adventures she went on. I took one of those adventures and wrote her a short picture book. As my brother and his wife had kids, they also starting writing simple abc/123 picture books for their kids. From the time my son was about 8 or 9, he started commenting that he was the only one who didn’t have a book. He would ask when is he going to get one. He was the only one of 5 kids to not have a book written. The problem I had was by this age a simple picture book wouldn’t be enough, so now I had to write an actual book, but what was I going to write? I thought about what he liked and started and stopped his book at least 10-15 times, with different concepts, plots, characters, etc. When he was around 12 I started to think I had a decent idea with a focus on Augmented Reality, but it still wasn’t working. I was coming up on roadblock after roadblock and had decided this wasn’t the way. I needed a new plot and I stalled out for 3-6 months. Then one day he was in my wife and I’s bathroom, brushing his teeth, and he asked me off-hand, “Do you know what Lucid Dreams are?” I said, “I think so.” He responded, “Supposedly they’re dreams where people can actually control their dreams while they are in them. I think it would be so cool to have a Lucid Dream.” With that one comment, I had the framework of the storyline in about 10 minutes and knew I finally had the plot which has become Anders Reality.