A gift, a burden, or an obsession...take your pick.

[Mythsaje]

As has already been established in many interviews with me around the web, I started writing when I was in grade school when I was restricted from reading for pleasure back in 4th Grade. I figured if they wouldn't let me read my stories, I'd write my own.

Of course I wasn't a prodigy or anything. My stuff was elementary and juvenile, as might be expected. But it was something I loved to do, and something I just kept doing. I didn't even finish a story until I was around twenty five. A novel I saved onto a floppy disk which promptly went bad.

I was pissed.

Back during the mid-eighties, when Mr. Run-all Rayguns was President, at the age of 19, I started writing and distributing anti-government leaflets, talking about the corporate control of our country, and warning about their war-mongering and polluting ways. I called them the "Mythrender Manifesto" and distributed them willy-nilly as the opportunity presented itself.

I didn't have any funds for anything more ambitious. But I was, in a way, blogging before there WAS such a thing as blogging.

So I suppose it's only natural that I'd end up here, writing about the things I care about. In my life, it was foreshadowed by the things I did before I knew what I was doing.

Had the internet existed back then, there's no telling what I might have produced.


About five years ago, I finished my third novel ever and, with a little help from my wife, found a publisher for it even as I was completing the first sequel. I devoted myself to my writing for nearly three years, turning out a book roughly every six months.

And I watched the Bush/Gore campaign with a sick feeling in my heart.

Then came 9/11, and my first thought was "well, isn't THIS convenient?"

I never trusted Bush. I had my doubts about Gore, which I seriously regret to this day. I wish I had've really understood him then.

I was posting on the about.com Civil Liberties boards at the time, sharing space with far more right-wing folks than myself, trying to get a real handle on the whole Libertarian thing. My wife tends towards Libertarianism, and I wanted to see what it had to offer.

But I found my niche when I came here. I could blog at any number of internet sites, I suppose, or run my own blog, but this place seems to fit me better than just about any other I could imagine. The format suits me. The company suits me.

I think I'll stick around.

And hopefully do a little good while I'm here.

In 2005, I found my way here.

[Hekate]

1. Nice to hear from someone who intends to stay, despite the occasional toxicity

Glad you're enjoying yourself. Best of luck with your books in the New Year.

Hekate

[malaise]

2. Please stick around

Happy Holidays :D

[blondie58]

3. yeah, please stick around, Mythsaje

I always enjoy reading your pieces. Your name always suggested to me that you are a wise one- a sage- or maybe it was just after reading one of your articles that my brain made that connection!