Attending an eclectic writing group Jo noticed the memoirists’ unending quest to frame their personal narratives.

In a discussion with a screenwriter, Jo remarked, “If I ever write a memoir, it’ll be a screenplay, or a novel.”

The screenwriter asked, “Which genre?”

Jo thought for a moment, and answered, “All of them.”

A member of several online forums for neurodivergent people, Jo was moved by younger people’s accounts of the same struggles he endured.

Once, someone asked him, “Does it ever get better?”

Jo answered, “It can.”

Many people told Jo that he was a solid example of someone finding satisfaction later in life. 

He decided a novel series documenting the entire life course of a neurodivergent individual could offer both realism and hope.

Jo’s motivation for writing the series required him to be a real character in his stories.

As a social services provider, employers sent Jo to intervene in clients’ lives after a threshold incident occurred. Jo noticed that:

1. The incident came to define that era of a client’s life.

2. Clients routinely lamented over alternative choices they believed would have spared them their current trauma.

An incident from Jo’s late teens inspired this same curiosity over what might have been. But how could he blend memoir, alternative history and autobiographical fiction?

He developed a new genre, the Imaginoir.