First Post
It sounds really silly now, but I didn't expect to create my own website. What you see here took me all afternoon to do. At this point, I'm kind of over it. But I know when it's all said and done, it will look nice. Hopefully. Fingers crossed.
Anyway, welcome! I guess this will be my official website. Hopefully its professional enough for your liking. And if not, I hope it's at least easy to navigate.
You're on my website, so I would imagine you want to know a little bit about me! There's noplace more appropriate to talk about yourself than on your official website. So here we go. I hope you like lists!
My name is Gary Benjamin Holt Jr. I'm the middle child, the only male out of three.
I’m 32 years old at the time of this post.
Favorites
Movie: A Nightmare on Elm Street
Novel: IT
Game: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
TV: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Console: PS2
Song: Why Don't We Fall in Love
Album: Born to Do It
Artist: Amerie
Moment: All of 2012. I lived next door to a really good friend of mine, and we hung out *all the time.
Person: Usually my niece, although sometimes it's my sisters
Pet: My black lab named Casper
One thing you will quickly notice about me is that my stories tend to be dark, really dark, but my personality is as light and laid back as it gets. Seriously, I have the music taste of a teenage girl but everything I love and everything I write is on the dark and twisted side of things. I still don't know how that happened. It might have started when I was 8 years old and my dad rented the original A Nightmare on Elm Street from Hollywood Video (RIP—the video store not my dad!). Yes, that's exactly when my love for horror began, but it wasn't until playing Persona 2 and reading Stephen King novels that really inspired me to write horror fiction myself. I had written a few stories in high school, but I didn't take it seriously until I was an adult (more on that later). We will talk about my manuscript in the next blog post. But for now, let's keep talking about me.
I used to write screenplays in high school and college, but they are all hot garbage. Though, I do think I might have had some potential in screenwriting if I kept at it and read more scripts. But there are so many rules in screenwriting, so much you have to consider. With writing novels, you have the freedom to let your imagination take you wherever it wants to. I find it much more creatively freeing, although it certainly comes with its own set of frustrations. Of course, there are rules to writing novels too, but like, you don't have to worry about what the budget would be or page count (that is, unless you're an unpublished author and your word count is astronomical).
I'm so happy to be blogging again! I used to blog a lot back in the day. Unlike then however, when my ‘website’ was a blogspot page, this is a domain I'm paying for. You better believe I'm going to get my money's worth.
