Well, after a few months blogging here on Steemit under my original account (
First passions
Writing has always been my first love. I started with stories, generally scifi and fantasy when I was still a kid. I recall writing an entire trilogy of novels when I was about 10 - a world steeped in dragons and dark lords that I basically used as a childhood escape from mundane reality. By a few years later I was writing (and publishing) a great deal of poetry as well. It's a love I've always returned to through the years, though nowadays I tend to focus on shorter pieces, micro fiction and Japanese poetry forms like haiku. I love the creative process, love getting my work out there and giving vent to the more colourful side of my personality:
And then there were bugs
The other side of things manifested itself equally early. Some of my earliest memories involve rolling rocks over in fascination and umm... eating whatever I found under them. Ok, so my keen enquiring mind required some refinement... But the seeds were there and led to me working with animals, studying entomology and zoology and ultimately traveling the world researching the self-same weird critters that fascinated me as a child. I've done everything from working in an exotic pet shop in Brighton in my early twenties to traveling Colombia and the Galápagos last year to fulfil this other side of myself. And no, it's not always as serious as it sounds...
As always, Happy Steeming People
The Wise Fox