I've been writing for over ten years, leaving pages covered with my words in the many places I have lived. Then about five years ago, apart of a few poems, I lost everything I ever wrote - who knows, the world may be a better place because of it. After a period of creative darkness, or the lack of it, I decided to leave my corporate career and concentrate full time on writing. Since then I have completed a novel, some short stories and essays. I gathered the poetry I had left, wrote several new pieces and decided to put myself out there, for the world to judge me. From this impulse was born The Silence Before Dawn, my poetic debut.I am currently working on a sequel to my novel.What makes me write? I depends. If it concerns poetry - than mostly thoughts that bug for long enough, and don't let go unless I write it down. My poetic debut was mainly inner thoughts and outlooks. The poetry I am working on now, is more concerned with places around the world that influenced me. Major influences? None. I don't own a single book of poetry.Fiction. When I write fiction I try to create stories around characters. Each one of us has a story, and it is those stories that I try to envision. Ever wondered why someone is homeless? Why they take drugs? Why they ran away from home? I do, and I try to talk to people, mixing their input with my thoughts, trying to create a scenario I can work with. The truth between the lines. Our worst nightmares and deepest thoughts. The main focus in my writing when it comes to fiction is, that life happens. It just does and people hardly ever stop, to understand it.Major influences? Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, Albert Cossery, Harold Maine, Karel Capek, Andre Breton, Le Comte du Lautreamont, Knut Hamsun.