About the Author: Kent Wayne

Hello everybody, my name is Kent Wayne.  I’ve started getting requests for personal info so I thought I’d put up this author page.  I know it’s commonly practiced social media etiquette to post lots of pictures and stuff about personal life, but I tend to veer the other way—I like my privacy.  Sorry if that offends you; I’m not trying to be rude.

I spent ten years in the military.  I was never a sex-nuts strong, roided-out Bin-laden-wasting-stud, nor was I a fat, whiny, high-and-tight (it’s the stereotypical military haircut) wearing pencil-pusher that lived to yell at people about uniform and haircut regulations because he was bullied in high school and couldn’t get a date.  Within those two extremes, I fall somewhere in between.  I’m not going to specify what units or branches I was in.  That was a different person, and it doesn’t matter now—I’m out and done with that stuff.  While it definitely informs my writing, the chapter has closed on that part of my life.

I prefer not to be thanked for my service.  There’s plenty of great articles out there that can express why better than I ever could.

My view on the military, just to give you some insight on my perspective:  the military is a reflection of society.  Of humanity.  Within it, you can find behavior that is villainous, heroic, idiotic, and genius.  The full spectrum.  And just like life, one person can exhibit some of each.  Nobody is a badass 100% of the time.  Nobody is a piece of shit 100% of the time.  I find most portrayals of the military reductive in that it doesn’t recognize this basic fact:  the military is made up of humans, and they are subject to human nature.  When it becomes clear that “shitbags” can be amazing and “heroes” can be child molesters, then the folly of using a label to reduce somebody to hero, baby-killer, badass, or brainwashed is revealed to be shortsighted and childish.

This is everywhere, not just the military.  I’m resigned to the idea that humans love to reduce the complexity of life into an easy-to-get-riled about, simplistic viewpoint.  But I have seen it get better as I’ve gotten older, so I still have hope.  I think the internet—and the increased ease of sharing information—has a lot to do with that.

The great lesson I learned from the military:  Ideals are nice and soul-stirring, but people tend to get blinded by them.  It is the ability to perceive the minutely relevant changes from instance to instance, from circumstance to circumstance, that will carry you.  It is not comfortably reductive idealism, but all-inclusory awareness that will let you navigate not just life, but all of existence.

(Hops off the soapbox)  I know that’s a poor bio, but I hope that my obnoxiously grandiose statement reveals more about me than if I were to list a boring series of life events.  And I hope it wasn’t too pretentiously poetic.  As a character from one of my favorite authors says (about a bunch of mentally masturbatory goth vampire wannabes):  “Too much time on their hands.  Leads to poetry.”

(Just kidding.  I love poetry.  Some of it.  Maybe.)

Thanks for checking out my work!  To all you writers, I wish you inspired drafting and insightful editing!

Kent Wayne

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1,441 thoughts on “About the Author: Kent Wayne”

  8. Wow. As I’m reading your About Me, I resonate so much! I made a wordpress blog very casually recently. I need a space to just be myself, but without sharing my personal life either. Thank you for sharing. Very glad to know about your blog (and books!)

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  11. Hi, I’ve been lurking on your blog for a while now, thank you for liking and reading almost everything I write. I think you’re pretty cool, hope to actually be able to chat someday haha.

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  13. Good bio to me! I’ll check out some of your books once I finish writing these papers, I like your perspective (so far) and look forward to learning more about your writing style in time. Thanks for checking out my blog post, I’ll see you around ^_^

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  14. Thank you for reading my blog recently—I truly appreciate your time.

    Whether your week is moving full speed ahead or you’re easing into a quieter rhythm, I hope you find a moment to recharge and refocus. Sometimes, just pausing to take a deep breath can be the reset we didn’t know we needed.

    Here’s to staying grounded, moving forward, and trusting the path ahead—1 goal at a time.
    – JJ1

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  15. Glad you liked my post. A civilian scientist who worked for the military training dolphins once told me, “If the Navy would reveal what it knows about dolphins, it would revolutionize psychology.” Likewise, I was married to a woman who was, not a UFO abductee, and not a contactee, but a seductee. And, as a very young child, I was given “Reichian therapy” by a respected psychiatrist who was, behind closed doors, a serial pedophile sadist.

    As a kid, I wanted to write science-fiction like the great authors I read: Bradbury, Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov, Sturgeon… when I grew up and looked back on my life, I realized that what has happened to me was stranger than any of those stories, because it was real.

    So, Kent, I don’t write science fiction. I write autobiography, it just reads like science fiction.

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  17. Hi Kent, followed you here from your comment on my Thoughts of Death blog post. I’ve gone to Amazon and borrowed the Door Into Evermore books from Kindle Unlimited. I love that you’ve put them there, as I am disabled and on SSI and can’t really afford to buy a lot of books!

    I plan to review them once I finish them. That will be a little while down the road, as I am in the middle of a series and have three and a half books to go before I can start something new, but I am looking forward to your books with great anticipation!

    I’ve subscribed to you!

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  19. Hi Kent,

    I just wanted to say a quick thank you for all the likes on my posts, it really brightens my day! It’s lovely to connect with someone who shares a love for fantasy and imagination.

    With moonlight and magic,
    Elisora

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  21. Hm…how did I miss this?! I cannot help but wonder if your name is an amalgamation of Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne… always what comes to mind when I read your name, pseudonym?

    PS I always stop by to check on your musings – good stuff, ty!

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