Through those organizations, I met my critique group, the Highlands Ranch Fiction Writers. Luckily, I discovered the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers (RMFW) and the Pikes Peak Writers (PPW). I completed the novel in time and tried to shop it around. At the urging of author Michael Stackpole, I decided to write it as a novel during National Novel Writing Month (NANOWRIMO). I had a screenplay idea I thought was fantastic, but I knew it would never get made. Time moved on and I continued to dabble here and there. I tried to secure an agent, but that industry is notoriously hard to break into. A few years later, I re-engaged and wrote several screenplays. Then I joined the Air Force and my writing took a back seat for a long while. I even won a fiction writing contest for a pretty insane Robin Hood time-travel story.
Once in high school, I wrote for the school’s literary magazine, SLANT OF LIGHT. As an army brat, I moved a lot and didn’t make friends easily. I fought alongside Howard’s Conan and Burroughs’ John Carter, battled my way through Mallory’s LE MORTE D’ARTHUR, and relished Pyle’s Robin Hood tales. I spent my time haunting the stacks of the library reading everything I could get my hands on. I will be forever grateful for those years. My friends and I created our own worlds populated by horrifying creatures who would stalk the grounds of the Academy in the dead of night and, of course, only we cadets could stop them. At the time, I was at New York Military Academy and there wasn’t a lot to do in our downtime but read, write, and play role-playing games (mostly Dungeons and Dragons, but also Star Frontiers and some other games). I started writing stories to entertain my classmates in fifth grade. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.Īt my core, I’m a storyteller. Thanks for sharing your story with us Michael.
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