BRYAN W. ALASPA

It doesn't happen often. Usually when I start writing, I have at least some idea where the story is going to go. Although I believe that the characters in my head come and tell me their tales and sometimes that leads to things that even surprise me as the writer, the fact is I do have some idea of where the road is headed. I have some idea that there might be a scary thing coming up and sometimes that has freaked me out a little - but it is rare that the idea I have in my bra

It is one of the questions I get asked: Why do you write? This is especially true when people find out that my books, novels and stories do not fund me enough so that I can do it full time. They wonder what the hell I'm doing writing blog posts about mice, rats and bugs or writing website content for a pest control company. They thinkt that having 30 books out there should be enough for me to live on. That's cute, but you can't do that in a city like Chicago. I have had frien