Getting to Know Me

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. – Isaac Asimov

I’m a twenty-something aspiring fantasy and science fiction novelist. Stories are important. They’re an escape, a release, a joy. It’s always been my dream to chase ideas down and put them into concrete words.

And of course I taste like spaghetti.

Spaghetti?

On deviantART, a popular art community site, my tagline became “tastes like spaghetti” because, well, when I created it I was eating spaghetti. And it sort of stuck.

That and I just tell myself my writing should taste like spaghetti anyway. You know, zesty, rich, not too overbearing. Just right.

My Inspirations

Anne McCaffrey: Dragonriders of Pern series, especially the original three books.

Robin McKinley: The Blue Sword.  It was the second fantasy book I’ve ever read and the one book I’ve read more than ten times.

Tolkien’s The Hobbit.  I’ve yet to actually finish his Lord of the Rings trilogy, though I’ve watched the movies countless times and they do count as big influencers.

Dune by Frank Herbert was the first science fiction novel I ever read.  Not long after, I watched the 80s film adaptation and then SciFi’s mini-series version.

Because these were my foundations, I quickly gobbled up all fantasy and, over time, science fiction movies.  SciFi (not the SyFy it is now) literally had me glued to the couch for hours (probably why I’m overweight).  I also grew up on anime like Cowboy Bebop, Rurouni Kenshin, Gundam Wing, and all Miyazaki films.  They’re a huge influencer, mostly towards fantasy, but movies like Steamboy have sparked interest in historical and science fiction.

Questions?

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