Introduction: A Sort of Writer

Since the primary focus of this blog is going to be to self-publish my otherwise largely unpublishable works of fantasy, horror and other silliness, I thought it would be best to start off with a bit of background on my so-called skills.

I started writing when I was a senior in high school. My first attempts at fiction were solely dedicated to the horror genre, and, in a word, said attempts sucked. Luckily, with persistence and a ridiculous number of hours dedicated to pounding out short stories and a (thankfully unpublished) Michael Moorcock style fantasy novel entitled "Demonsbane", my skills have grown somewhat, even if I have been out of practice for the past two years or so. I majored in Creative Writing in college, where my style took a decidedly verbose turn into modern fantasy and fantasy-horror hybrids. It was while I was in college that I attempted the first draft of my dream project, a dark fantasy titled "Darker Sunset" (consequently, this project bears no relation to the Dungeons & Dragons "Dark Sun" campaign setting aside from an unfortunate similarity in titles). After nearly 700 typed pages and a dreadful realization that the project had lost all direction and focus, I scrapped "Darker Sunset" and focused instead on writing fantasy roleplaying game supplements, a venture which produced the extent of my published works to date. I have since completed numerous short stories and two novels, practically all of which remain unpublished, primarily due to a lack of effort on my end in regards to submitting these works off to the appropriate parties. (Those few submissions I have sent off have been summarily rejected, and will require some more work before they get sent off to the firing squad again.)

But then some fool invented the internet. Now you don't have to have an agent to publish yourself, or even skill, for that matter. All you need is a computer and an internet hookup, so beware!!!

Recently, I'd started posting excerpts from my second (completed) version of Darker Sunset over at my old Myspace page, and I'll likely continue that trend over here. In the meantime, however, I'm going to post a recent short story that isn't so much a story as it is a recording of a dream. This piece may not make a profound degree of sense, but I enjoyed writing it, and it's actually become one of two framing stories for a plan short story collection that I just recently started began work on (and that I'll likely be publishing here as each respective work is completed). Enjoy.