I was thinking about what I have done as a writer. Although my name hasn't appeared in too many, or in too great of publications, I have spent a tremendous portion of my life writing...
I have been writing creatively and independently since I was a small child. My first book was completed when I was in the fourth grade. The Red Cross Knight, a children’s adventure book about a warrior on a long-distance quest, was exquisitely illustrated by a friend from my class. One year later, I dramatized Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park for my fifth grade class play. Fortunately, it was not performed.
Throughout middle school I was highly prolific, writing three novellas, many lengthy short stories, and two unfinished but extensive novels. In high school I collected my poems—written on small pieces of paper and kept in my pocket, sometimes at the rate of ten or more a day—into a book titled Orange Moon. I also kept, for some time, a diary chronicling the life of a fictional person.
After high school, I wrote movie scripts, both original and adapted from novels, and personal essays. Once entering college, I immediately joined the newspaper and within one semester was a senior writer and assistant section editor. At Rice University, I took Dramatic Writing four times and wrote several one-act plays and a handful of shorts.
After college, I wrote a cookbook and became a freelance writer for the Web. Currently I am a staff writer and Web content manager for a university communications office, every week producing thousands of words of original content as well as narrative and promotional videos.
I continue to write personal essays, long-form non-fiction, drama for stage and screen, new dictionary definitions, and freelance Web content.
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