During his early childhood his moms house flooded during a bad derecho and left his house ruined, he still remembers the call from his mom at his dads house to this day. Going through this gives him a deep passion and good description of disasters and hardship in his writings. Some beliefs he has is that freedom is the most important thing in life, as well as being kind to others. But he also knows how much these things can hurt. Most of the central characters he writes about tend to be tragic heroes because of this. He also holds honesty very closely to him. He hates lying and will often not lie unless the alternative is worse. To show this in writing he often plays the villain as deceitful and cunning when he can. The biggest thing that's impacted him though was his mom meeting a man named don. This man became his step father in the future and eventually became his number one inspiration, most father figures he writes are a mirror image of him. He still wears a ring that he got during the wedding to this day.  His writing voice is most likely a soft and deeper voice, like a calming man that conveys emotion in his subtle tone changes. He is good at portraying negative emotions and positive emotions feel more heartfelt rather than exciting. Most of the time he writes the topics have an overarching darkness about them. The pieces often have a theme of mental illness of a dark twist that changes the perspective of the story completely. Others describe his writing style as "creativity personified" paying homage to the intricacies deeply woven into the themes of his writings.