About My Writing

All my life I’ve been telling stories.

When I was six, I told my friends about my pet alligator in the attic. I had a steel door on the attic, and Sam the Alligator kept breaking his teeth on it trying to get out. But since alligator teeth grow back, he just waited and tried again. In my vivid imagination, this made perfect sense.

When I learned to type, I immediately started writing stories on the computer. I wrote fantasy tales of far away planets with weird animals and humans that weren’t humans. I wrote a series of plays based on the Arabian Nights tales and the beginnings of a historical novel about a young American girl who became a spy during the Revolutionary War.

I entered college as an English major and figured out writing essays wasn’t nearly as much fun as writing stories. I switched to a psychology major and kept a creative writing minor. A friend in the telecommunication department decided I should be writing script for a TV show he was working on. I wrote scripts for the show for roughly two years, and it made me determined to have extensive veto-power over any scripts that result from my novels. I can dream, can’t I?

After I graduated, I decided to work on my writing in earnest. After a several ideas blossomed and wilted, I finally settled on one of my favorite topics: science fiction. I got an idea about a college student on a colonized future Mars, and it has been growing steadily ever since. I’m currently at 45,000 words. We’ll see how far I can get by the end of the year.