paulkellis
- Age:
- 48
- Location:
- Richmond, VA
- Hobbies:
- Iaito, Karate, Camping, Reading, Movies where things blow up, Kit-Bashing, Model Rocketry (yes, I'm one of those)
- Favorite noveling music:
- ReMix, Techno, Trance, Blues, Classic Rock
- Website:
- http://dsnite.blogspot.com/
- Sponsorship URL:
- http://www.stayclassy.org/fundraise?fcid=143537
- Occupation:
- Development Environment Engineer
- Favorite books or authors:
- Honor Harrington Series,The Belgariad, the Malloreon, the Elenium and the Tamuli, Spenser Novels, The Shadow Pulps, The Doc Savage Pulps, The Dresden Files, Walter Gibson, David Eddings, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein (early), Douglas Adams, H. Beam Piper, H.G.Wells, David Weber, Robert B. Parker, Raymond Chandler, J. Michael Straczynski, Dashiell Hammett, Lester Dent, Jim Butcher
Author bio:
All of this started in 1977 and continued for about ten years. After I graduated, writing became something I stopped doing. Well, that I stopped doing for fun. For the next thirteen years or so, I did commercial copywriting for local radio and television stations; which was a lot of fun, but really didn't pay the bills. So, I shifted careers and went into computer programming.
Now, programming paid the bills as well as fed a certain creative side, so I was happy. Or at least I didn't know I was unhappy. Fast forward to 2009; after a hiatus of about 21 years, this "condition" returned with a vengeance; this need to tell a story. As one might expect, I've lost all my writing mojo or perhaps I never actually had it in the first place. This is my attempt to reclaim my lost youth. Hmmm, that officially makes this a mid-life crisis. Groovy.
It's well and truly sad that this is my red Corvette. At least I still have my hair; no, wait; that's not right either. In any event, here is one record of the journey; the paths taken to capture the art of crafting a fine tale. Now, how compelling my storytelling is, I leave as an exercise to the reader.
