I'm not a writer but about three years ago, while I was driving to work, I heard this song on my CD player that I really liked. I kept playing it over and over, thinking about it and asking myself questions. The lyrics really stuck with me. I'm caught beneath, with nothing left to give, forever (Why) I can't give up, I can't give in (Why) I'll carry you and we will live forever (Who is he carrying, eternally it sounds like) I will stand, and I will let this end (What is he standing against) The sun begins to rise, and wash away the sky (How does a sunrise wash away the sky, it must be fire) And I will never say goodbye I just kept coming up with theories about why this was happening, and it kept pushing me backward further, asking more whys, creating a story in my head where someone gives up his life for another. A year later, I thought, "I should write this down." So I took the plot from my mind and put it on paper, and then it really took off. My writing looked a lot like a fifth-grade book report. I'm not concerned about being known as a writer; I'm not going to have a profile picture of me smoking a pipe trying to look all intelligent. I think I’m more of a “story creator” than a “writer.” In my book, Ai handling the "fancy words" makes the book readable and even elegant, but it is the human-written core (the world, the characters, the plot and the story arc, the setting, the conflict, and the pacing that I created) that makes it memorable, moving, and worth reading.