Words, words, words.
For several years of my life I really wanted to be a professional author. I have since realized that one may well be a professional author in addition to whatever you happen to be doing to try to make money. It's interesting how every career I gravitate towards involves the possibility of long periods without food....
Fall semester of 1998 I had a creative writing class, followed by a playwriting class that Spring Semester with Arthur Athanason. I also had two semesters of poetry with Diane Wakowski.
Research Papers.
Here's a quick list of several of the major research papers I wrote over the second half of my undergraduate career. They're here in pdf in order of oldest to most recent.
The HST Key Project and the Hubble ConstantI've posted some of my other writing here, but most of it is quite old now. At least five years old, some as much as seven. And good gravy, some of it is not what I would consider good. But, it's still better than some of the stuff that shows up on the web, and this page would be awfully empty without it, so it stays up for now. Remember that I don't look at any of it as particularly representative of my writing now; if you're interested in my current efforts out the Offbeat or my above research papers.
Here's a rather rough story I wrote in my sophomore year of high school by clicking here. Keep in mind that this story is almost eight years old now, and I was a somewhat different person when I wrote it. I started rewriting it with a slightly revised plot a few years ago and was pleased with the results. But then it got put back up on the shelf as my fiction interests began to get all postmodern.
The developing saga of my very own superhero. For a preview of the actual novel in progress, click here. This was written at the beginning of my junior year in high school, so progress is slow. I haven't looked at this one in over a year.
Music
Then there's the work I've done for my proto band that never really was Rhymes With Orange. I've written a fair number of songs. Maybe I'll post lyrics someday. Or an mp3 or two.