Tristan Archard is a West Coast writer who specializes in screenwriting and fictional story telling.

He got his start in making stories at a young age, with some major inspirations to pursue creative media in his early life being Calvin and Hobbes, Inuyasha, and early PS2 games.

Tristan grew up in a small mountain town where there wasn't much to do other than explore or play video games. This natural sense of adventure and whimsy would become a core aspect of his escapism and love for imagining new places, or ideas that could be. 

He got his first experience in making his own published stories when his school newspaper asked for comic strip submissions. He would make and submit multiple strips hoping it'd make it in and give others a laugh. Remembering a time when a kid walked up with the paper laughing and saying "Good Job", it was the only fuel he needed to pursue this passion for a life time.

During these formative years, Tristan was made to pursue acting by his mother. Getting a taste of being a character rather than just writing them, it gave Tristan an educational perspective at making dialogue and making genuine interactions between people. A skill he'd take with him when he soon began screenwriting in High School for the drama class and other productions.

He liked script writing so much, he'd get a large amount of practice in the form of writing skits with his high school friends, and acting them out on youtube. (Though as of today he believes the humor reflective of these is a bit cringe.) 

Growing out of comic strip humor, Tristan gained a knack for making larger scale stories, and had a desire for building thought provoking worlds. Causing him to want the same sense of adventures as the characters he wrote. As child he would climb trees and scale mountains. As a teenager he'd snowboard and jump off boulders. So when he became an adult he wanted to travel and experience the world, to provide an open minded view that would be believable in his own tales.

Eventually, this history of his would land him jobs at a few studios as a script editor and creative director. Giving him the tools he needed, and helping him make connections with the people who could make his brain's endless reverie into reality.

Charles Dederich