Hello everyone! Been looking for a forum like this for a really, really long time. I found it through the National Novel Writing Month forum, which is also a great place to meet other writers of all different stripes.
I teach at a university in Japan and have held a slew of other jobs beforehand. Chicken inspector, rack salesman (the racks you put chips on in stores), hurricane relief quality assurance inspector for FEMA, administrative assistant for oil spill clean-up, commercial plumber, and library assistant. You know, "character building" jobs. I have also interned for a small press publishing company where I oversaw manuscript evaluations for about a year and a half.
One of my strangest attributes was my stint as a professional wrestler (hence my profile name.) I wrestled for 4 years on the independent scene, wrestling in bars, at fairs, high school gyms, and National Guard armories. Won several championships including NWA (National Wrestling Alliance) titles. You know, the good life.
My dream was to wrestle a bear, but I never got to do that.
I write fantasy primarily with a slant more towards the weird and or/dark. My fantasy heroes would be George R.R. Martin, Robert E. Howard, Joe Abercrombie, Steven Erikson, China Mieville, and others. I also like history (and alternate history), primarily Chinese and Japanese, although I know little of either.
Never been published, with the exception of poems about Hurricane Katrina, because I've never really tried. In about 10 years of writing fiction, I've only submitted a handful of things. That's about to change though!
In my spare time I write, read books, play video games, and post blogs about random stuff. I'm engaged to be married any day now. I love living in Japan and I am also working on a manga right now.
I like to use parentheses as much as possible (all the time).
I teach at a university in Japan and have held a slew of other jobs beforehand. Chicken inspector, rack salesman (the racks you put chips on in stores), hurricane relief quality assurance inspector for FEMA, administrative assistant for oil spill clean-up, commercial plumber, and library assistant. You know, "character building" jobs. I have also interned for a small press publishing company where I oversaw manuscript evaluations for about a year and a half.
One of my strangest attributes was my stint as a professional wrestler (hence my profile name.) I wrestled for 4 years on the independent scene, wrestling in bars, at fairs, high school gyms, and National Guard armories. Won several championships including NWA (National Wrestling Alliance) titles. You know, the good life.
My dream was to wrestle a bear, but I never got to do that.
I write fantasy primarily with a slant more towards the weird and or/dark. My fantasy heroes would be George R.R. Martin, Robert E. Howard, Joe Abercrombie, Steven Erikson, China Mieville, and others. I also like history (and alternate history), primarily Chinese and Japanese, although I know little of either.
Never been published, with the exception of poems about Hurricane Katrina, because I've never really tried. In about 10 years of writing fiction, I've only submitted a handful of things. That's about to change though!
In my spare time I write, read books, play video games, and post blogs about random stuff. I'm engaged to be married any day now. I love living in Japan and I am also working on a manga right now.
I like to use parentheses as much as possible (all the time).
Minstrel
