FROM BEHIND THE LENS TO BETWEEN THE LINES
For the first time on this blog, I’m sharing something that’s been quietly taking shape behind the scenes: my debut novel, The Conductor’s Game.
As I prepare for its release, I’ve been reflecting on how my creative path has evolved — from telling stories through photographs to crafting them through words.
Before I was a writer, I was a photographer. My life revolved around light, tone, and the art of noticing. Every photo session was a kind of story — not told through words, but through emotion, texture, and silence.
Looking back now, I can see how photography quietly trained me to write. Both require intuition. Both ask you to capture something invisible — a fleeting feeling that says more than the surface ever could.
Writing, of course, demands a different kind of patience. There’s no instant click of the shutter, no tangible moment of “got it.” Instead, there’s rewriting, reshaping, and learning to sit in uncertainty until the story comes into focus.
But when it does — when a scene finally lands, when dialogue feels alive, when everything aligns — it’s the same rush I felt every time the perfect image appeared in my lens.
This past year has felt like that moment of focus. After years of editing, rewriting, and second-guessing, the story is almost ready to meet the world.
Soon, I’ll share more about the cover design process, publication plans, and what comes next. But for now, I wanted to pause — to look back at where it all began, and acknowledge how the act of seeing has always been at the heart of everything I do.
Both photography and writing ask you to capture something invisible — a fleeting feeling that says more than the surface ever could.
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