Autobiography on My Writing

[W]hen I was young, 19 - 23 I read all the major works on politics and economics. Because I was writing a book that involved politics and economics, and so I wanted to develop a realistic society; I still do that today. I also kept track of current events, and read a lot of history.

I did at 18/19 discover Pi related to a circle’s circumference with a piece of string, quarter and ruler. And I found a way to complete the square when trying to do some math for research in my first book, as I figured out explosive force was quadratic. Which it should be, if the Theory of Relativity is true. I didn’t know the Quadratic Equation at this time. At all.

But then, at 2015 I began to read poetry, like Byron, Wordsworth, or Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf. So I’d be about 25/26 at this time. Which the bulk of my writing was written in the last decade, actually. Some of my best was my earliest, but I have some excellent works in my mature years, too. And this is when almost all my serious poetry was written.

Then about 2020, I saw the world imploding with COVID, so I started doubting my politics, as I saw more and more, conspiracy theories were shaping the narrative—which I intuited at a young age, even around 2010, but it really became fully realized at this time. And in this time I was studying geometry, or had just started doing so. I opened up Euclid’s elements, and started figuring it out. Also, at 30 your mind matures a bit, and you start to see things a little clearer than when you were 19 or 25.

But, yes. I’d think hitting all disciplines at once, has helped shape my writing. Being interested in both the arts and math has kind of helped me be a better writer.