T. Pina on Feb. 13, 1959 in the hell bent South Bronx, NY. I currently reside at my home in Staten Island, NY with my wife & 2 children. Writing has always been the passion of my life. I've been blessed to work with great writers in my life time! A fiction writer who was born & survived the brutal South Bronx during turbulent times of the 1960's. Between the violence,crime & drugs that infested us (all my old friends are either dead or in jail.)
To survive it all (& to heal my torn soul)
I took to writing & for goodness sake, I just never stop! I've been through a lot of difficulties & conflicts in my life(as you will see in my writings)but the greatest woes I have encountered and dealt with in my lifetime were from the demons within me!
For those writers going thru very hard times I say: Just write baby! A very famous fiction writer once told me that you will never be a accomplished writer unless you dedicate your time to write a page a day! 365 days a year with a page a day, you have a book. For those suffering writer's block and other writer's illnesses apply yourself & just look out your window. There is so much to life (good and bad )passing you by each day. Look outside, around your towns, cities and even on the internet there is so much going on and so much to write about. Just look at Washington. Come on & tell me you can't envison a few great stories out of all of that mess. Just because times are bad doesn't mean you can't make good things happen! You can make a great lemonade with lemons good or bad!
It's not the bad things that happened to people that defines life but really it's what a person does with their life after all these bad things have happened. I live with the premise:
"Tough times never last but tough people do." We are all what we make out of life!
So go ahead and just write! Write for what ever reason but always write with passion and to heal your soul!