Author's Introduction

Hello, welcome to my blog, Stories 'n Stuff! I know, it's not a terribly creative name, but I made it up at 2:30 in the morning and I don't drink coffee, so gimme a break!

I'll start off with a few words about me before we really move to the reason that we're here. So if you have absolutely no interest in the boring individual details of this author's life, feel free to skip this blog post and move straight to the stories! I am a twenty year-old, and an aspiring author....well, I think. While I obviously enjoy writing, even more so I enjoy roleplaying, or writing with other people, and most of my stories are actually based off of such experiences. My first work, "The Ancients of Larkiss", is no exception to this either.

I enjoy God, reading, writing, martial arts, video games, talking to myself (Yeah, I'm pretty much my own editor), playing with guns, playing with fire, playing with guns and fire, and a whole list of other things that I won't put up for for fear of winding up on yet another F.B.I. watch list, and which have no actual bearing on this blog what so-flipping ever.

When it comes to actual income, I spend time as a security guard, which is great for having six or so hours of absolutely nothing to do, and gives me a lot of time to think up plot twists, ideas, characters, quirks, funny ideas, and all around just let my mind off its leash to wander the fertile pastures and fields of my attention deficit disorder.

Which, I think, makes it a really good thing I'm not a shepherd. Or a babysitter. Or a bomb disposal technician....or any number of things where you need to regularly stay focused. I can not do it. Except on writing, and that's simply my mind wandering and my fingers following along, soooo.....

I don't give out my real name, although I'm sure several of you already know who I am. When I become an awesomely popular author and make billions and have everyone clamoring for my autograph, I don't want to give them a door to knock on...and on a more humble and sensible note, I also am slightly paranoid. I mean, I'm a black belt, have a twelve gauge shotgun, and I'm qualified in the baton and pepper spray, and I still don't like giving my real name out over the internet. Yeah, I get it, but being unreasonable is one of those artist prerogatives that we get....along with complaining loudly when we're rushed to meet a deadline we agreed to and something about trailers.

My stories, coming from me, tend to take on a bit of my aspect, so expect sarcasm, bizarre humor, plenty of "Dude, WTF" moments, and a certain amount of cheesiness to them as well. That's the kind of guy I am.

I will be trying to update this blog, hopefully at least once every two weeks or so, I haven't quite gotten into my 'swing' yet on how well I can get my chapters out, but two weeks would be my goal.

Anyways, so my pen name is Haven, if you need to address me for some reason. I've also been known by 'Hey you', and 'twerp'. And "Xanthor, Overlord of the 22nd Dimension" if I'm in a somewhat spastic mood. I hope that the stories I put up here are entertaining. Some will make you laugh, some will make you cry, some will make you stare at your screen while asking, "What in the world is this guy on?!" But I do hope, that no matter your take, you enjoy the aftereffects of my mind overflowing onto my keyboard and spilling over into this vast binary monument to human hopelessness that we have learned to call the internet.