So I hail originally from Warr Acres, and am a Senior
English writing major. I'm a member of Christians on Campus, and participate in its activities on a regular basis (the banner for this blog is from one of the outings we had in Fayetteville, Arkansas about a year ago). My hobbies include watching NBA, playing basketball, reading, and writing stories. My current goal is to start publishing short works of fiction in magazines. I hope that once I have published enough of
them, I will eventually collect them together into a self-published anthology
and sell them to rake in a little extra money. I just finished a short novella
recently, and am planning on submitting it to some magazines as soon as I’ve
had enough beta readers give me feedback on it. Hopefully it will be the first
in a long list of stories I plan to publish in the future. Even if it isn’t,
there’s always the next story! With enough perseverance I’m sure that I can
eventually break into the short fiction market at some point. I don’t have any
delusions about becoming a full time writer living from novel to novel, but
being able to write short stories alongside a regular job would be ideal for
me.
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| Sometimes you feel like this after you've written long enough (Image information: Wikipedia commons) |
I'm due for graduation this semester, and am taking a pretty
interesting mix of classes, including my capstone, an Oklahoma Writing class, and
an online Sports Management class, alongside this one. Being an
English major really grants you a lot of flexibility when it comes to class
choices since the degree requirements allow you to take practically any upper
division course as an elective. I imagine I’ll be learning a great variety of
things this semester.
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I have two brothers and one sister, plus two sisters-in-law and several nephews and a niece. All of my immediate family lives in Oklahoma, so I see a good amount of them. Having a big family that I can spend time with throughout the year is one of the biggest blessings one can ask for.
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| (Image Information: Personal photo of me photobombing my brother at the airport before I even knew what photobombing was, taken I think in 2008) |
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| Image Information: Personal photo of my sister and I, taken in 2008) |
So yeah, that’s me!
