About Myself

Hello, my name is Ariana Torralba, currently 25 years old. I am a "nerd" at video games, History, Art, Music, English, and Psychology. Quite literally study all those subjects. Also a divorced, single mother to a little boy that I love so much. I often tell myself I would give up things just to have full custody of him. Give up coffee for him, give up writing for him, give up music for him, and even would give up a kidney for him. I guess that defines a mother's love for her child.
I do writing for him actually. Back in my teens, beginning at age 12, I did writing as more of a hobby to release any imagination built up in my mind. But after he was born, it became more as a goal to be able to provide for my son and at the time, husband. Then the divorce happened, now it's more of a goal to get my books out there, sold, and then get full custody of my little boy and our own home.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. I wrote the When The Dead Came books that are available through Amazon and Createspace... They are not selling like I had hoped, but I know it's because I don't think I wrote them good enough, so lately I have rewritten the first two books with more detailing and backgrounds of the characters.
I thought I would write this so everyone can have a better sense of who I am. Pretty much like a little biography of myself. Anyways, I am Comanche, that's my background. Have siblings I love and care for, have actually lost two back in 2014, neither of them had the chance to meet my son.
Guess it's obvious on Twitter that I like coffee. Probably along the borderline of addiction, but hey, it's better than other addictions. Only gave up coffee twice in my life: Once because my family was betting me that I couldn't go a month without coffee, and the other time was during my pregnancy.
The first story I wrote was a suspense, wrote it when I was 12 years old. After that, I began to write more, most being horror based. Anytime I try to write a comedy, it usually turns dark. I probably shouldn't attempt comedy.
Aside from writing, I have also tested my other talents. When I was seven or eight, I started creating my own cartoons, the main one being called Mike Stone (before I knew there was a Mike Stone in the band Queensryche). Then I started to learn music: Drums, xylophone, the recorder, acoustic guitar, and the bass guitar. Realized I have a nice hobby with knitting too. Mainly knit hats and scarves, but currently working on a blanket for my son. Also sewing.
Enjoy video games, love the Fallout series along with the Fable series, Left 4 Dead series, pretty much any game I can shoot on. Well, and the Sims games, mainly to test my skills at architecture, landscaping, and interior designing.
In 2007, I wrote When The Dead Came, but it actually started as a movie script I wrote. So was When The Dead Came 2 and Apocalypse World. Just like the book, When The Dead Came pretty much had the same characters as now. So it's always been Justin, Alex, Avery, Keith, Holly, and Jenny - the main characters. Back then, I had based it on a few dreams I had and turned them into a script. With a movie script, I will admit, I had certain actors in mind when I created the characters, at least in appearance.
The story changed a lot over time too. At least since I wrote them as a book series instead of movie scripts. Originally, I was going to add some romance between Avery and Alex, but then took that out and figured I would leave out romance, because it'd be a bit difficult to create something like that with someone else during a zombie apocalypse.
But lately, I have been thinking of adding it back in the series, as a way to enlighten the character stories just a little. In When The Dead Came 2, the first survivalist group is introduced as the SGO, Survivalist Group of Ohio, and they turn out to be a threat toward the main characters. The book ends with a bad note, where half the characters die and a mystery is resolved.
Then in Apocalypse World, you find out why Alex did what he did in When The Dead Came 2. You also hear about the group known as the SGC, Survivalist Group of California and get kind of a history about them from the character Seth.
Since my divorce, I didn't get the chance to publish the fourth book of the series because there isn't internet access where I'm at, and my laptop is still not working. But, since I have Microsoft Word on my phone, I have been typing it all out again and will publish it... Eventually. Currently, Apocalypse World is pretty much a cliffhanger right now.
For the series I have written over the years, I will tell you that after Apocalypse World, there is three more books to the series and only one isn't finished yet... I have too much time on my hands.
I don't think I'm a great writer, I actually think this series is better as a script I wrote years ago. But, I'm doing this for my son, Michael. And hopefully, it works out soon.

Ariana

P.S. Doing this blogging idea is simpler than explaining myself to others that ask about me. But also a decent way for me to share thoughts... I think a lot.