I am not really a professional writer wanna-be. I'm awfully happy with my full-time job (which involves lots of math and would probably bore most people to tears). But I do occasionally get bitten by the writer's bug and need a forum to publish my works. Thank you, !

The one thing needed, as always, is more feedback! :) It doesn't matter how old or complete the fiction, I love feedback. Review or PMs or whatever! FWIW, my favorite story of my own (at least today) is "Charles vs His Destiny". I poured a lot into that novel.

I love to read all kinds of things, as long as they're well-written. I have a very low tolerance for low/no polish, no patience for m/m slash, and extremely variable time to read/write.

Passions: Church, my kids, board games, video games, card games, Lord of the Rings (but not for fanfic -- I'm all for canonical stuff), Veronica Mars, etc.

What was a Chuck rant...

Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak drove me away from writing for a long time. I'm still angry with them.

At the time, I said "I may continue to write fanfic. I might try my hand at some original fiction. I know I have really enjoyed the community here. Thanks to everyone. Feel free to send me a note anytime! I am thinking about making a blog for random writings. If/when I do, I will post a link here." Well, I'm commiting to writing some over at https://www.fictionpress.com/~arathorn73 for at least a bit.