Daniel Nielsen

About me:

Twilight: The netherrealm existing between light and darkness; the slow diurnal descent into nocturnal submission; a time of transition and change.

Change...

It is the one true constant in our realities, no matter how skewed they may be Nothing remains static . Everything changes. Days, weeks, seasons, years, looks, knowledge, love, dreams, and even personality. Change inspires uncertainty, fear and nightmares. It quickens the pulse and enhances our senses. It complicates, disrupts, and transmutes each and every one of us through our environment, our commitments, our relationships and our thoughts .

Despite these qualities, change is an absolute necessity. Stagnation corrupts souls and imagination. Dreams remain dreams only if one lacks the courage to rip them from the sky and subdue them like the belligerent and elusive beasts they are. They can no longer hide from me.

There comes a defining point in everyone's life that alters them irrevocably; shatters their misguided views on themselves and opens up avenues of personal mystery hitherto unexplored. It is these avenues that lead us into the dark corners of our true selves. Where we can at last throw open wide the vaulted doors of secrecy and let what light we haven’t left behind shine down upon the heart of our being and pray we don’t cringe at what we find.

I am a dark fantasy writer and a gothic poet. I’ve studied under several well known authors and have personally met and correspond with several others. I have one fantasy novel published, another forthcoming, three more on the burners, and a gothic poetry chapbook of 100 rabid poems in the final stages of publication. Plans are in the works for another volume of another 100 gothic poems in the very near future. My writing is not for the weak of heart or mind. I do not spell everything out, nor will you find I describe anything in great detail. I will not coddle you. Reading is about exploration and using your imagination to envision what the author sees in his minds eye. I live to challenge your preconceptions; to shape and bend them to my will through my writing, or if you’re really lucky or interesting, then perhaps I may engage you through conversation.

With that said, I literally dare you to come closer; to dive deep into the blood of inspiration I’ve stained these pages with now and in the future. My veins run deep and my imagination treads paths where hungry shadows lie in wait . Read on at your own risk; let my words transform your views of the world and inspire your morass of dreams. For better, for worse, my work may change you, disrupt your life in ways that you will never foresee. You don’t have to like or accept it. Just read it and remember:

In transformation there lies beauty, ecstasy and discovery, but the process is never easy.

Nothing worthwhile ever is...

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