Andrew Seiple's Blog: Transmissions From the Teslaverse - Posts Tagged "introduction"

"You must not come lightly to the blank page." Stephen King wrote that, in one of his few nonfiction works. It's a book called "On Writing", and it's probably the best manual on the craft I've read so far.

It's a wise saying. And it holds just as true for blog posts, as it does when you've got the word processing software of your choice cracked open with the prompt blinking at you.

Writing is serious business... but at the same time, it's hella fun!

Greetings, all. My name's Andrew Seiple, and for about a year now, I've been writing with an eye to publish my work. I'm starting up this blog to collect stray thoughts on writing, roleplaying, and other similar pursuits. I'll write down hints of things to come in my projects here, and the occasional thought or two on random things.

Fair warning; I'm verbose. Especially when I'm not counting words, I spend them like binge shoppers whip their credit cards on Black Friday.

But who am I?

Well, that's simple. I'm nobody special, really. Grew up in the outskirts of Dayton, Ohio, in the United States of America. Lived around Dayton my whole life. Used to want to be in a hurry to leave, but I've got some pretty solid roots in the form of family and friends, and I've found it's not so bad living here.

I had a decent childhood, with a slight downside in a tendency to be bullied at school. I survived that until college, where I found that much to my relief, the world was actually a pretty fun place when you're not surrounded by jerks.

I did a two-year stab at a CS major, found that I had no head for advanced math, and switched over to a MIS major instead. That cost me an extra year in the grand scheme of things, but it was time well-spent. I lucked into an internship with the Air Force as a civilian employee, working at Wright-Patterson AFB. I'm still working there today, in a nine-to-five job that involves computers. I can't talk about details there, sorry.

I'm thirty-nine years old as of December 2015, married to an awesome lady, and have a three-year-old daughter.

And after that daughter goes to bed, I write. In between messing about on the internet and playing video games, I ponder plot twists and characters and exciting scenes, and every night I try to put five hundred to a thousand words on the page.

There are some nights I don't manage it. Too tired, or time's too short, or a fun game's come out and I get distracted. But conversely, once I get deep enough into a manuscript, one thousand words can turn into two thousand, or even five thousand if I'm on a roll.

And I love it!

My day job pays the bills, and the debts, but my night job?

That pays in satisfaction. And a small amount, here and there, that I sock away for the future.

So that's me, more or less. I could go into more detail about hobbies, life, or writing... but I think I'll save that for future posts.

Be well, friends, and I'll post again within the week.