Read as if you’re being watched, because the story behaves as though you are. Once you enter, the rain doesn’t stop.
THE RAYNMEN
Author Commentary: The Synthesis of Cynthia | Joseph J. Washington
Author Commentary: The Synthesis of Cynthia | Joseph J. Washington
The Truth About Authorship
I am not building this universe from ambition.
I am building it from purpose.
What may look like effort to impress is only the visible edge of something much larger being revealed in pieces. I am not inventing as I go in search of attention. I am opening doors one at a time into a world that already exists with its own architecture, its own history, its own consequences, its own theology of power, survival, family, sovereignty, and judgment.
What I have shown so far is only a narrow view into a connected universe far greater than the portion presently visible. It extends beyond a single story, beyond a single book, beyond a single conflict. It reaches into its own mythology with a force that borders on godlike—not because it seeks to replace God, but because within its fiction, creation has scale, consequence, order, and dominion.
I expect your ignorance.
I expect your envy.
I expect the ridicule of those who confuse what they cannot see with what does not exist. I expect small minds to mistake patience for absence, vision for arrogance, and construction for performance. That is the privilege of those standing outside the work: they get to doubt the Ark while the flood is still gathering.
But I do not need them to understand before I build.
I do not need permission from those who were never meant to board.
I expect the Ark to leave without you.
And still—
I will build it.
Anyhow.