Hello!

My name is Benjamin, Benz or Benny for short. And I write. A lot.

I'm in a small town in Canada-Minnesota, and I have been writing since third grade. Now how long has that been? It's been almost been a good ten years.

Recently, I've been working on finishing my novel, Catenasque: Chains Can't Hold Me. I'm currently editing through the whole deal, and then hopefully, I will have it ready for publishing in a few months. I will be posting a summary and updates of it throughout my blog.

Another piece I've been working on is Loss of the Innocents. I figure I'm going to change the name of it to something that rolls a little smoother off the tongue. This shorter story is based off of a wild dream I had one night (will not spoil it for you).

Lastly, I had a piece that I started, and I am not going to finish it. This is where the blog is coming into play. I had a book I started called: Benz, the Witch Hunter. However, I didn't quite feel right when I was writing it. I was turning myself into a fairytale, and that was very off. I felt wrong. Now, Benz isn't exactly my real name. It is my chosen (you could almost say pen) name, which I will go further into detail in a later post.

Once you start writing about yourself, you start to give yourself personality traits that don't quite match up with what you are actually like. You start to get rid of your bad traits. Now, I kept myself quite how I am: a bit paranoid, angry, and salty. I also kept my rough sense of humor, my smart wits, and my caring for friends. Yet I was unhappy with the piece. It was all just a fairytale.

Why you might ask? I'm not sure I want to say quite yet, but you try writing about yourself and look where you'll be. You'll be a story. A fake. All you want is to stop pretending. Or were you pretending in the first place? In that case, do you really want to stop?

I want to stop being just a story. I need to be me, but I'm being restricted not only by parents, but myself. I need to stop writing myself into a fairytale that can never be true. And here on this blog is where I can be free.