Integral to INTERGALACTIC BASTARD’s story is that I bring a sense of humanity to such a ridiculous idea. Yeah, Coop Sabre is a larger-than-life character smashing his way around, but even those types of people have lives outside of their jobs and reasons why they do what they do.
The same goes for the people in his life.
In a past life, I was deeply immersed in the combat sports industry, running one of the most popular blogs for professional kickboxing in the English-speaking world. On top of that, I wrote about Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) regularly for various publications. Somewhere along the way, I started helping fighters out. For some, it was helping to find a gym, for others it was more management type of stuff.
That means I saw behind the curtain for a lot of people’s lives and how even the toughest people in the world are just as insecure and alone as the rest of us.
This chapter was, perhaps, a turning point for the story when I started to really nail down what I wanted out of this story, thematically.
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