Jesse Liet

I am a writer who has been cultivating a multiverse-scale collection of novels, short-stories, and myriad plot points involving a slowly growing cast of characters who continue to grow more believable as the array of worlds they pass through undergoes a similar maturing. My tales, written out of order but with an emphasis on continuity and consistency across eons of time which my work spans.

I have not published yet as I am a stalled Linguistics major and my focus on East Asian languages has allowed for my English grammar and sense of voice to diminish; I work at making the decades of scattered tales into something I can own and guide, if not command. Maybe I can share some bits, though. I suppose the scale and settings would place my work in the High Fantasy genre but I am influenced greatly by Japanese light novel format stories--most recently Matsuyama Takeshi's 'Iris on Rainy Days'--and Sci-Fi/Cyberpunk such as William Gibson's Sprawl setting novels.

I used to visit the library at every opportunity but I now possess so many books that I am juggling the reading of or know will be great reference that I spend my time tending the seed of a library. Currently the major part of that library in mass and volume: Linguistics books and textbooks, Chinese and Japanese language and culture sections, books on drawing and painting--I hope to work at least one of my story arc collections into a solo-produced graphic novel but have a ways to go in taming my fine motor control, and a stack of reference books on coding, networking, computer maintenance, and certification study guides.

Avoiding common pitfalls in plot development is a big concern of mine as falling back on comfortable, cliched troubles and solutions can cheapen a story; another concern is my own ability to collect into a cohesive tale that fits in the chosen form elements and events from a bunch of story arcs that may continue, begin, or end in another novel. I may dream quite large for an unpublished novelist but the amazing detail and research shown in 'The Gargoyle' was cultivated in Andrew Davidson's mind over 7 years. I have been cultivating my own worlds for well over a decade and want my exotic lands to be just as believable as Marianne Engle's tales of wonder.

I always find myself encountering Japan, Computing Technology, Language, and--increasingly--Canada while I go from genre to genre. I am a native-born American Citizen but I certainly could do with some travel and I could certainly help others learn English after three years of Linguistics study and a lifetime of immersion in English--29 years today--so I may follow Andrew Davidson's path of teaching in Japan as I research to enrich my writings. I could also just visit Canada but I've no real reason to at the moment and it would have to be a road trip; I'm not eager to fly the 'Friendly Skies' with the TSA behaving in a generally un-Constitutional and unpleasant manner as well as to airlines finding new geometry applications in fitting the most people into a given space. FYI if you want to maximize the billiard balls you can space into a given area it's best to perform the feat in 23-dimensional space. Just a warning in case airlines start acting all clever and making physics breakthroughs..