Kris St.Gabriel

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Kris St.Gabriel

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Not long after I became a werewolf, people stopped being able to detect when I was exaggerating. That’s a quote from Wrongcards, a terribly-serious ecards site that I founded in 2008.

I grew up in mostly rural towns in Queensland, Australia. I attended a dozen schools, then went to Griffith University where I read a lot of books. After graduating I became a full-time vagabond. I drifted around the world and was occasionally homeless. For half a year I lived in a mate’s garage. It was very romantic; I woke up every day covered in ants.

After a few years in Germany and Austria I found myself in Boston, where I was hired by Harvard University to fix computers. At the end of 2007, I was invited to join a lab at Harvard as a scientific programmer.
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Kris St.Gabriel I've never suffered from writer's block, but I had the measles when I was a kid because nobody told my Nana about vaccinations. I'm pretty sure that w…moreI've never suffered from writer's block, but I had the measles when I was a kid because nobody told my Nana about vaccinations. I'm pretty sure that writer's block stems from a misunderstanding about the nature of creativity, which is less a talent and more a process for solving problems. Allow me to demonstrate.

Imagine, for a moment, that you can't find a sock. Alright then, are you going to approach that problem in a Grave and Terribly Serious Way? Or are you going to get creative and look in the microwave? Because that's where I put it - to punish you. Yes, you with all your questions. You think I'm going to tell you my secrets? Just like that?! Because you asked me? HA HA HA HA. You fool! (less)
Kris St.Gabriel The second best thing about being a writer is, the questions that people ask you, like ... off the top of my head - and this one came up recently, act…moreThe second best thing about being a writer is, the questions that people ask you, like ... off the top of my head - and this one came up recently, actually - someone asked me, What's the best thing about being a writer? And my answer was this, the very best thing about being a writer is that it sometimes provides the opportunity to insert interesting jokes about recursion into paragraphs. That said, the second best thing about being a writer is -- [see above](less)
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