Overview

I may be an engineer by trade, and a geek by choice, but that doesn't mean that I don't have a creative bone in my body (of course, some will argue that engineering is by its very nature creative, but far more see only the hard hat, the anorak and the pages of maths, so I thought I'd put this disclaimer on here anyway).

I like to write. If something matters to me, I want to put down in writing my thoughts on the matter. In the past, I'd send long opinionated rants to Usenet, but very few people ever seemed to bother reading them, and even fewer replied. So I decided not to bother any more. I still read quite a lot of newsgroups, but I rarely reply, and when I do, my replies tend to be snippy, spiky one-liners rather than pages and pages of prose.

Instead, I post such things to my LiveJournal instead (mostly friends-only). Again, people rarely reply, but that's OK and much better than Usenet. It's there for my own convenience, after all, rather than anyone else's. There'll be a blog here shortly, when I've worked out just exactly how I want to organise it. I'm not yet sure what kind of thing I'm going to put in it and whether or not it will have a theme.

I also occasionally write poetry. Some of you who visited my old website in the past have sent me really encouraging email about my work; thank you so much, it means more to me than you'll ever know! Some of you have even suggested that I ought to be thinking about trying to get some of my work published; I may just start thinking about it now that I've finally got this website redesigned and up and running.

Something major that I've been trying to do over the past few years is write a novel. I've got three on the go, in various states of completeness. Because I might, if I'm lucky, one day want to publish them, they aren't available in their entirety here; however there are taster chapters for each of them available from the menu on the left. There's also a rather disturbing short story (10000 words) here.