I hadn't planned on doing these entries before. In my life, I've considered it briefly, but found that my life isn't particularly noteworthy enough to keep a log on. What gives my life meaning, I find, are my explorations themselves. I happen to help bring others' stories and cultures to light. However, I still see myself as a third party. When I say my life is not noteworthy, I don't want to seem self-deprecating or imply that my life has no meaning. These two words are not the same. I am a third-party, weaving these real accounts to the wizard population. I love my purpose in life. My publisher, editor, and agent have all pushed me to be as factual as I can when writing for my books. We negotiate, and I comply a bit. Some of my entries take the magical folk's behavior as a broad generalization, since that's what our society demands. I pushed for the right to add more colorful stories and accounts, however. I still have to omit some details, but illustrating to wizardfolk that these are actual people like us with their own ways of living. Some more unconventional than others. But we are not exempt from this sort of judgement either. That's a topic I could rant about for too long, perhaps another day.
As I was saying, my story is not too noteworthy to tell. All we learn is about our own magical history and numerous wizard stories, to add on my own doesn't feel like a priority for me. But the reason I was inspired to begin writing is that my sister recently gave birth to a beautiful baby girl named Violet Paige. I met my niece recently and when I held her in my arms, I felt a compulsion to begin writing about my life-for when she grows up. For you see, I've been painted as a cold individual, as someone without morals and the way I undermine our societal structure in only a way someone well-known enough with a proper celebrity status can get away with it. Perhaps my notoriousness is painted with a bit of romanticism which allows me to get away with a… "bad boy" image so to speak. I do not want Violet to have a misconstrued interpretation of me, therefore that is my true purpose of writing these much more personal entries. I want her to truly know her uncle.
If you were to meet my friends and family you'd see that I'm quite the cheery fellow. I'm even accused of talking too much, my overly zealous personality having to be hidden by a cover-up personality. Why I feel comfortable revealing this in public is because fans that have found these archives are fans that came here with reason, purpose, and wit. The image you have of me shouldn't sway you from the information in your hands.
Open your eyes. Question everything.