1. When did you start writing?
I honestly don't remember... Earliest I can recall is in grade school I wrote a short story called "Holes In Time"

2. First drafts: Handwritten, typed, or some combination?
Typed. Though I have handwritten a few, They tend to not be very long.

3. Do you keep any kind of notebook or writer's journal, and if so, what kinds of things go into it?
Eh, not really. Mostly things just bounce around in my head until they fall out and either land on paper or vanish into the aether. I do have a notebook with some character/story ideas in it... if I can find it....

4. Do you set any quotas for your work (number of words per day, number of hours per day, etc.)? Why or why not?
Nope. Meh... lazy... and work and stuff

5. Are you most comfortable writing short stories, novels, or something else?
Short stories/poems. Though that isn't to say I don't want to write something longer, it's just going to take me longer. ^.^

6. What's your favorite kind of story to write?
Fantasy, Science Fiction. I want to try horror/gothic fantasy but so far it's come out a little more Piers Anthony and a little less Steven King...

7. Talk about a story of yours that was easy to write and one that was difficult to write, and why.
Easy? I'd have to say the most recent was "Smash 'N' Grab" pretty much just fell out.
Hard? Heh... The Legend of the Crests; Book 1 Only got two chapters so far...

8. Which of your characters is closest to your sense of self? In other words, who do you most identify with in your own work to date?
The Unnamed Defender from The Last Defender stories.

9. What work are you most proud of right now?
The Words

10. What do you feel your strengths and weaknesses are as a writer?

Strengths - I dunno... I have many ideas?
Weaknesses - SPELLING! I cannot spell to save my life, and more then that sometimes I'm so far off on a word the spellchecker can't even figure out what I mean. >.<

11. Name a few writers who have influenced you or your work in some way.
Piers Anthony, Anne McCafery, Holly Listle, Robin Hobb, Dr Suess... etc


12. Talk about something you've written that you later found embarrassing for some reason.
Nothing to date

13. Talk about the earliest stories you remember writing. What were they about?
As I mentioned before, the first one I recall writing (and finishing) was Holes in Time, about a boy who falls through a hole in time (thus the title) and ends up in the American Civil War. But it's a little wonky. I wish I could find a copy...

14. If you knew you would be successful, what would you most like to write?
That damn Defenders story... Anything really.

15. What inspires you?
Everything, and I'm not kidding either, I get ideas from everything from driving to sleeping to playing WoW

16. How many projects do you tend to work on at once?
Heh... all of them? I really couldn't say

17. Who reads your work before it's released to the public? Do you have beta readers, a critique group, etc.?
Nobody really. I mostly just write then post to dA or FA. Thus many errors can be found.

18. When you're not writing, what do you do for fun?
Play World of Warcraft. Read. Sleep. Not necessarily in that order.

19. Advice to other writers?
Read. Learn. Dream. Wonder. Question. Repeat.

20. What are you currently working on?
Meh... I have a list somewhere...

21. Share the first three sentences of a work in progress.
How about first 3 paragraphs?

Birth of Chaos rewrite:
I've always been told that a story should start at the beginning. Sound advice, no? But what do you do when you can't figure out what the “beginning” of the story is? Were I to start telling this story at the [i]beginning[/i] I would have to go clear to the moment just before Time started. Then skip several billion eons. I think I'll let someone else tell that story.

My story, you could say, starts the day I was born. A dull June day in a sleepy Midwestern town. But other then the news of a happy healthy baby boy there's not much more to tell. The next fourteen years are much the same, until my mother caught my father cheating on her. In their bed. With her sister.

I remember the gunshot. And the smell, they never tell you how death smells.