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Being a hybrid of American and English ancestry has given me gifts from both cultures-the rich history that is the English monarchy and the British Royal Navy; the technological superiorty when it comes to the stealth fighter and bomber, the expansive cultures which make up the United States and all of their own histories. Though I am not American by birth for it was a small town southeast of London, England which became my home for the first seven and a half years of my life. The youngest of three I hardly ever had to work hard-why when there were two older ones who were more than happy to go and fetch me my toys and picture books?
Watching cartoons like "Thundercats" or the puppet show "Thunderbirds" feed my very young mind; at night dreams of fighting with a sword or piloting one of the numerous machines that made up "International Rescue" filled me. Yet cartoons were not the only things to affect me-the scenery, history, and riding the trains, listening them hiss as they braked at stations, or the clanky-clank as they switched tracks. Yet this was not to be for long-seven years after my birth the computer company which had hired my father as an engineer wanted to update, and that did not evolve engineers.
Fortunately the Phoenix branch needed someone with his experince and knowledge so my family and I exchanged almost always cloudy, rainy, freezing cold, rolling hills and lush green forests for the almost always bright blue skies, hardy any rain, scorching hot weather and tall green Saguaro cactus, rocky mountains, and vast landscape that makes up the Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona.
Time went by and the cartoons of my early childhood were replaced by "Knight Rider", "Gargoyles", and later on "Highlander: The Series", and "Le Femme Nikita". Cars had been introduced to me by the old Volkswagon "Herbie" so "K.I.T.T." from "Knight Rider" became my favorite-didn't hurt during my early teen years to watch the recent James Bond films with the vehicles jammed packed with gadgets. All of this needed some form of being used, so during the minutes before and after school on the school bus I juggled ideas around inside me. Once my friends had found me I spilled out to them an idea and after that we created various role playing games which grew as we grew-assisted with excellent playing equipment as a fortress, a couple of towers, and sand being a molt it was mostly the fantasy genre which we doved into.
By fifth grade role playing was no longer enough for me-what to do with all of the ideas on the weekends or holidays? So writing, later to be typing, was how I matured as a writer. Now it has been over ten years since and I am no longer in contact with those friends whose ideas and improvements to my own inspired me to continue writing/typing as time passed.
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MY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
- The first completed story was actually an assignment given to me by my third grade teacher-we were to read an assigned book then use the main characters in our own story. Instead of writing it the school had a computer lab so one hour each day we were sitting at our computers typing; which was good since back then the keyboard came easily to me more so than writing something on paper. Once the story was completed it was thirty-odd pages; though now lost, it would affect me two years later.
Using my own characters from the story typed in third grade a new idea formed itself within my mind. As word got out about it students came to me to be placed within it but at the time I was not prepared to have an entensive list of characters so I selected a small group. The story was penciled in September of 1996 and by January of the following year it was fifty-eight pages and would go no more since the computer had taken the place of writing.
At home on the old Mac the story of a young girl who gets kidnapped only to discover an alien conspiracy grew to one hundred eight pages in length and by that time it was transformed-some characters had been dropped, replaced by more realistic and in-depth personas and the whole plot was different. Now it involved a race on Mars who wanted to conquer Earth but due to limited resources could only invade and hold a country the size of Rhode Island; while unexpectedly discovering the only race who could touch them technologically was also within the Solar System. - By eighth grade the story whose orgins stretched back to third grade had expanded to cover multiple races, thousands of years ago to that in the future, and several plots with some taking place simutanously. In October of 1999 an episode of "Star Trek: Voyager" gave me insight to a new level that had never dawned on me before. The story to come out of that was one hundred forty-seven pages and twenty-seven chapters in length all in three months.
Overall the short story which I wrote in fifth grade has now grown into dealing with threats posed by abusing technology, the pros and cons of nanotechnology, danger to the enviroment; but also has car chases/races, battles between those who thought they would never be against each other, flight of fighters over stunning scenery, polictics and conspiracies. - Besides writing action packed stories the other side of me is to keep historical events as much a part of our everyday lives as is possible-to make sure we do not forget so as to hope they will not be repeated to the scale or larger of past events. To this extent I have vastly undertaken researching on topics like the USS-Maine, the R.M.S. Olympic/Titanic/Britannic, the Lusitania and her sistership the Maruatania, World War I/II, the USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor in general, the Cold War, Desert Storm, USS-Challenger, September 11 and USS-Columbia.
Both fiction and non-fiction stories have been scripted and wrote out dealing with most of the above if not then there are documentaries on all of them. It is my deepest hope my generation and those who follow will be wiser and not have history repeat itself, but as history does show, Man is Ignorant and Arrogant, and the opposite will take place as it has been for thousands of years.
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MY RESIDENCE INFO:
City: Phoenix
State/Country: Arizona
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