College Park, Maryland USA native Steve Husk is a father of four, a former security control center officer and software / web applications developer, and now works as a fiction writer. He currently practices his craft in northern Virginia.

Living in a Writer's Paradise

Good. I got the obligatory third-person basics out of the way. Here's how I got to this point...

I spent the summer between 9th and 10th grades searching the known galaxy for something that would assist me in making sense out of life...for some interaction with life that would bring me happiness...for some grand event or revelation that would explain everything I wasn't able to figure out on my own. It took me almost the entire summer, but that 'grand event' finally found its way to me.

Actually...all that really happened was that I wanted to 'continue' several experiences that happened that summer in the form of written stories. Essentially, it was my way of keeping those experiences alive in my own mind.

By the time I started 10th grade, those experiences morphed from chronicle form to works of an expanded imagination.

And, when I exhausted extending and expanding all the "based on a true story" events, I invented new ones just so I could keep the enjoyment going.

Welcome to fiction writing!

I've found many things to do in life since that time, but writing stories has always been with me. Sometime, the writing was for fun. Sometimes, it was therapeutic. Sometimes, though, it was for the same reason that got me started with writing in the first place: there were things that I saw, or heard, or were apart of, or outright imagined, that I wanted to explore through words.

I suspect that will never change with me.