So they tell me I need an About Me section
Having an about me page always feels awkward. I know I am not the only creative person who hates the question “What’s your elevator pitch?”
My answer is always: “I am a poly-creative who specializes in helping companies reach clients while writing dark fantastic tales in dark of the night.”
I love a good typewriter, not a fan of AI creation for anything that should be creative, and I have a poetic side I try to hide.
About Me, A History
I moved into writing seriously after a long time away from it, around my mid-late twenties. When I was a kid, being a writer was my dream but I never had all the encouragement I needed. As people do, they encourage you toward a day job. Forgetting that to get good at your craft you need to practice, I shucked it all away, dabbling in fanfiction but nothing too fantastic.
I owed my coming back to writing more seriously after an seizure and injury that laid me up for a year fully and forced me to be three months off of work. I had my first taste of fan success in the series Games of Wonderland, based on the Syfy series Alice (2009), and things just escalated from there.
How do you publish?
I never had much urge toward publication, my stories were for me. But I liked putting things out into the void and having it yell back at me. I self-publish currently and offer books for free and for a price. It is often a very fair trade for how much I write!
What are you up to lately?
To date, I’ve been coping with personal issues, health and otherwise, which limited my ability to do much of anything with my writing. During the pandemic, I wrote extensively to build a catalog but my intention to do a lot with those stories fell by the way side when I fell into a long-term illness. I am finally feeling well enough to reach a bit of my old capacity.
So here we are, starting afresh in the most turbulent time for writers this year.
Best we get a move on.