Joshua Jansen
Bluffton, South Carolina, United States Email: jjansen@islc.net AOL: elseare
My history as a writer:
I began writing in primary school, as I remember. At the time, though, I didn't take the craft seriously. My desire was to have fun with the assignments, and I recall attempting to develop works that had a certain literary quality to them; that is, I would never let something pass that didn't sound quite correct to me.
Middle school, however, was an institution where I discovered the true power and beauty of the art of writing. Assignments evolved into adventures of expansion; each day an English class, each day a new story. While they were short, they were also descriptive and comically violent. Consequently, they were also very popular among my peers.
Owing to a car accident that removed from my life all memory and activity of the week of sixth grade spring break, yet allowed me not one absence from school, I was able to purchase my first computer, and begin the journey of development as an author. My first act with my word processor, so many years ago, was to write the first chapter of what is now a continuously evolving, incomplete one-hundred-ten-thousand word, thirty-three chapter novel.
High school brought with it scheming and dirty tricks to continue the development of my burgeoning talents as a writer. The discovery that one can write a story in one's notebook while maintaining the appearance of doing actual classwork was in no way lost on me, and I can safely say that doing so many a time in my pre-calculus class not only helped me develop as a writer, but also cost me any type of decent grade.
Higher public education in South Carolina is almost a contradiction in terms; my meager college experience, while interesting in terms of anthropology, was mostly a useless waste of money with concern to the mandatory course curriculum. I dropped out, eating the loss of the cost of several classes, to focus on my job and my art of writing.
Today, the work still grows, but is near completion. Many chapters, up to three-quarters of the total, are already in their final edit format, and several chapters are even ready for submission as samples. While the specific genre of my current work is dramatic military science fiction, I am capable of practically any genre outside of that.
Currently, I have written several product reviews for IMG Magazine that can be seen online or in CD-ROM format, but I have yet to have anything published, aside from that.
About me:
I love people, in terms of societies and cultures, to observe them, to discover why they do what they do. I love people in the way they interact and consort with one another. The ineffable quality of something as simple as teamwork is of great interest to me. I love mysteries and I love history. I love problems of logic. It is for those reasons that I would like to try my hand in the field of archaeology.
I love to travel. I love to help people I don't even know. A book-signing tour, for me, would be akin to a vacation, but I would still be anxious to return to the work I never stop thinking about.
Most of all, however, I love to write.
I am a man of ideas. Reams of documents based solely on the universe of my current work, along with the interpreter and producer that is my mind, will, with the proper exploitation, spawn a massive series of novels dedicated alone to my main characters, to say nothing about the remainder of the universe and the many alien cultures our galaxy possesses. The distribution of and profit from licensing rights are a definite, obvious probability, of course.
They say that the self-editing author is one of the rarest creatures known to man. I may be an amateur at this point, but if I had to make a guess, I would say that I could be counted among that population.
My name is Joshua Jansen. I am twenty years old and am an unpublished author. Interests: writing, archaeology, anthropology, history, war, military hierarchies, philosophy, technology, topology (geometry and geology), chess, logic, and sarsaparilla.
Published writer: Yes
Freelance: Yes |
