Who am I?
S. J. Webb (full name Samuel Jonathan Webb – Sam for short), a 29-year-old web developer, from a tiny little village in Leicestershire, England.
What am I doing here?
Trying to write fiction, and hoping I can do it well :)
And why?
I can remember trying to start a story-writing club when I was about eight years old; getting told off repeatedly, around the same age, by a certain teacher at school, for daydreaming; staying in the classroom at lunch time, when I was about ten, writing stories with my best friend (something about people standing on clouds is all I can remember); writing various stories throughout secondary school, most of which were well received, apart from one slightly self-indulgent horror story (something about an alien axe murderer, whose Achilles heel turned out to be water); writing and editing stories for various ezines in my late teens; in my early twenties, writing the storyline for a videogame (which never quite made its way to becoming an actual finished game); and then… some how or other, I must have got distracted from all this story-writing. I don’t think I had the time any more for writing or for reading, and forgot how much I loved doing both.
What brought it all flooding back?
Fight Club. I met this guy in a bar who asked me to hit him as hard as I could. Or, well, I saw a movie in which that happened. And my mind was blown. I didn’t know a movie could have such an effect on a person. I started reading Chuck Palahniuk‘s other books, and it wasn’t long before I re-realised that writing was what I really wanted to do.
And then I wrote a book and it sold billions?
Erm… not yet. But I have spent a great deal of time reading, and studying, and teaching myself how to write better fiction. I have written a number of short stories, the first of which is due to be published in December. And I have begun the process of writing my first novel.
Am I going to stop talking to myself now?
Yes! Please subscribe to my blog, post me nice comments, tweet me some tweets, and put me out of my misery :) And I hope you will read some of my stories when I get them online :)
