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Hello and welcome to the website. So glad you could make it. I guess it\u2019s blogs like this that give you a little insight into who a person is and what makes them tick. Why read one of these things unless you get something out of it? Let\u2019s start with the basics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

My name is Jonathan Wilson. I grew up in NW Indiana about twenty minutes from the south side of Chicago. Some of us as kids lovingly referred to our region as \u201cthe armpit of the Midwest.\u201d If you also grew up in Hammond, you know what I\u2019m talking about. Unlike most, I grew up as a Jehovah\u2019s Witness. Not exactly one of the cool kids, I sometimes got picked on. If you know much about the JW culture, you know we didn\u2019t have most of the typical experiences you get in elementary, middle, and high school. Now I live in Ontario with a family of my own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More to the point, now I\u2019m an aspiring writer. Don\u2019t ask me what makes someone cross the finish line into the territory of \u201cBeing a writer,\u201d other than just writing regularly. I suppose it\u2019s like running a race\u2014to expand on \u201ccrossing the finish line\u201d\u2014you just do it until you get there. I\u2019ve been writing off and on for probably fifteen years now. Like many people, especially anyone who is neurodivergent (my TikTok algorithm seems to know me well), I like to start a new project and then it gets left on the side of the road to make room for the newest shiny thing. I have a keyboard and I can play maybe four songs on it. The guitar had its phase as well. Once I took up airsoft for a hot minute and even tried making costumes with foam. The foam didn\u2019t go very far, but my brother-in-law was able to reap the rewards when I gave him my unused stock. You\u2019re welcome, John.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may be thinking, \u201cIs this guy going to keep up this writing thing?\u201d It would be a fair point, except for one thing: I\u2019ve always been creative and I\u2019ve always come back to certain avenues of self-expression. Those avenues are the image and the word. Ever since my second-grade English teacher gave me heck for doodling on my spelling tests, I\u2019ve been drawing pictures. Now I tend to do that with modern technology and with words. I used to be pretty good with a pencil. Drawing portraits was my favourite to do. (I may see if the webmaster will put a gallery up somewhere.) Unfortunately, years of nerve issues with my neck have made it very difficult to draw for any length of time. When you need fine motor skills and your hands go all numb and tingly after five minutes\u2026 well, you get the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This blog isn\u2019t really about pencil art. You came here for the why and the how of my stories after all. Let\u2019s start with the \u201cWhy\u201d of my writing. I LOVE a good story! If it isn\u2019t a good story, I lose interest. Don\u2019t we all? When you only have so many hours in the day, you need to spend those hours enjoying what you read or listen to. Speaking of which, I prefer to listen to stories, especially if they are full cast or have music and sound effects included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m inspired by just about anything I see in day-to-day life. Sometimes it\u2019s a song that hits just right, or a random sentence someone says that sticks in my head like a splinter until I write it down. I never know where the next idea will come from. That\u2019s half the fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And just to clear something up\u2014I don\u2019t do the whole \u201csit down at the desk with a cup of coffee and a fancy fountain pen\u201d thing. My handwriting looks like it was written by a doctor in a moving car, so paper isn\u2019t exactly my medium of choice. Most of my writing happens on my phone, usually in the Notes app or a Google Doc when inspiration strikes. It\u2019s not glamorous, but it works. I can be anywhere\u2014standing in line at a grocery store, sitting in the car waiting for my kid to finish practice\u2014and boom, I\u2019ve got a new paragraph or a line of dialogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes I use prompts just to see what spills out. That\u2019s one of my favorite things about writing\u2014you never really know where the story\u2019s going to take you until it\u2019s already got you by the collar and you\u2019re along for the ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, about this little corner of the internet. My YouTube channel is still in its early stages, but I see it as something that can grow into more than just my own projects. That\u2019s why I rebranded it as Tale Teller Media. The idea isn\u2019t just to tell my stories\u2014it\u2019s to build a creative community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re a writer, narrator, or voice actor, I want you here. Seriously. Send me your story, and you might see it come to life in video or audio form. If you\u2019ve got a good voice and a decent mic, reach out. We\u2019ll find a role that fits you. And if you\u2019ve got a story burning in your mind that you\u2019d love to see turned into a cinematic short or a narrated audio piece, let\u2019s make it happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tale Teller Media isn\u2019t just about entertainment\u2014it\u2019s about collaboration. It\u2019s about bringing words, voices, and imagination together to make something memorable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So thanks for stopping by, for reading this far, and for maybe seeing a little of yourself somewhere between these lines. Stick around\u2014there\u2019s a lot more to come. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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