“I was convinced I wanted to be a filmmaker until I studied film,” Khorram says. Seeing Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy led him to enroll at the Vancouver Film School. (He still works as a projectionist and lighting designer at a production company but was able to reduce his hours after selling Darius and keep his health insurance.) The urge to create remained, however. Writing was a refuge for Khorram, who felt “other” both in his Kansas City neighborhood-he and his sister were the only Iranian-Americans-and at family reunions, because everyone else could converse in Farsi.Īt Southern Illinois University, Khorram studied technical theater. “Fantasy, sci-fi, some sort of adventure-that’s where it started.” “We had an after-school club where we would go to that classroom and write,” he says. He and some friends got permission to use them. His school was upgrading its technology and had stored its old word processors in an empty classroom. “She didn’t discourage me, but she urged me to write something original next,” he recalls. He began writing seriously in sixth grade, after he showed his English teacher 10 pages of fan fiction-a sequel to The Lord of the Rings-which she damned with faint praise. Despite the false starts, Khorram’s writing career has had a long gestation.
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