4: Describe your inspirations and what message you wish to bring across

I forgot to do this yesterday. Big surprise…

Inner Demon

I mostly get inspired by a good reading. It just excites me to write something. I do admit that sometimes anime, video games, manga, and other things of the sort inspire me as well, and I guess it’s evident in my writing ‘cause I hear a lot that my stories play like an anime. It’s not my intention for it to seem like one, but I take it as a compliment all the same.

ID itself was inspired by me thinking how awesome it would be if you weren’t lonely. Yeah, sad thoughts there. What if you weren’t alone when you were alone ‘cause you had someone else talking to you in your head? Oh. Look at the crazy lady’s thoughts. Anyways…I’ve always loved the idea of demons and wanted to create my own origin story to them while keeping their typical evil and bloodlust and meannessness intact. Demons and angels seem to go hand in hand—surprisingly a lot in WP, I’ve seen—but I didn’t want to add anything about angels, in specific. I didn’t want it to have that…Revelation feel I guess.

Um. The only message I guess that I can think of is more of a…general thing. That doesn’t make sense. What I mean is that I want the reader to think beyond the stereotypes of supernatural romances. A supernatural being isn’t always going to be some romanticized, lost soul that needs the love of a mortal to “feel” human.

In my case, Mundus is a demon. A demon is going to be a demon. He is going to kill people and be selfish and an asshole. He’s not going to be some tortured soul that doesn’t like being who he is or doesn’t like killing but has to ‘cause of some romanticized reason or other. Mundus doesn’t want to feel or even be mortal. In fact, he does the opposite and tries to convert his lover into a demon. No one wants to give up awesome, demon power! Well, he doesn’t want to at least.

There is the lesson…er…message. Just ‘cause it’s a supernatural romance, don’t expect it to be an overly emotional first person POV journal of an overly dramatic teenage girl bent on an overly romanticized supernatural being that only wants to be loved.

Act of a Demon

Continued inspiration from ID. Continued message too I guess.

Calathus

This was a weaving together of a buncha different, separate ideas I had for stories, so you could say it took me a while to actually bring it all together.

I can’t really say there is a message in this one. At least not an intentional one. At least not right now. Maybe later on. Who knows. For now just enjoy it. Ha.