Q&A with J.D. Stroube discussion

If you were writing a book, what would you write about?

Anything fantasy... something that would get me out of my own world. I don't like real life :(

I love fantasy, too, as well as a romantic mystery...a connection, but a twist is always a page turner for me. ;-)

I would write stories based on my life. With a short poem at the beging of each story. Like a collection of short stories. Or I wanted to write a great single book vampire story. However the genere is so overdone. It's out of the question. Unless I was to write it, and release in the next decade. It would probably take me that long to write it. LOL. So maybe I will.

vampires... I'm obsessed with them... and shapeshifters, love them as well. :D I'm already writing one based on Death which I'm reworking. But yeah, vampires, shapeshifters and Death. ^^

Gritty realism, which is what I'm doing now anyway :) Started off doing YA fantasy, but set one of my stories in my old town in South Auckland, New Zealand, and things rapidly morphed into hard-edged realism in the same genre as "Once Were Warriors."

Kayla wrote: "vampires... I'm obsessed with them... and shapeshifters, love them as well. :D I'm already writing one based on Death which I'm reworking. But yeah, vampires, shapeshifters and Death. ^^"

lol Death is in my first two series! lol

I would write about a story about Punk Rock kids in 1980's AZ & CA. I would like to write it as an auto biography. But I might get sued. Maybe if I changed the names. It would have a cast of characters I dealt with. Doc Jackson who ran an after hours gambling club, and his pardner Fonz West a militant black artist and pimp. Hookers, Guns,drugs,sex,and moderate violence,near death expeiriences,death of friends. Lots of social comentary.

Marita wrote: "Gritty realism, which is what I'm doing now anyway :) Started off doing YA fantasy, but set one of my stories in my old town in South Auckland, New Zealand, and things rapidly morphed into hard-edged realism in the same genre as "Once Were Warriors."

Excellent book! Hope the writing goes well for you.

Right on. I have been wanting to write an autobiography for awhile now. Not another missery of the drug expierience book either. I would only touch on that, and concentrate on social expieriences, relationships, and my strange secretive world. I also have wanted to write a childrens book about the relationship of three bearded dragons, and the boy they live with. Illusrtated by myself in watercolor. I have liver disease however. So it will be a real challange. That is the reason I have only written short stories published in the free press. I just haven't had the health for a full blown attempt. What energy I have is used up in guitar playing. I am writing songs however. That is a version of writing, and to me an album is like a book. So maybe I can do that. There are many possible doors or choices. If only it was as easy as just picking one. But my illness, I am afraid will hinder me until the grave. So I have to keep my works short, and within a realistic scope. I will create something. : )