I must have missed this part of the forum when I joined, almost 2 months ago... Better late then never I guess... I joined this forum to learn more about writing. I am a complete newbie when it comes to writing but I enjoy scribbling my thoughts and ideas down. When I think about it... I am actually not new to the writing bit, I am only new to the creative writing bit. I have a popular blog containing boring articles about a niche in the IT. I also wrote a book about the same niche but strangely enough, I don't like that book but when a publisher asks you to write a book, you hardly can say no, just because you don't like the format of the book. Creative writing is actually a hobby that does not really fit into the picture. If I would give you list of hobbies and you would need to pick the one that does not fit, creative writing would definitely be the one. My other hobbies are: * Macro photography: yes I take pictures of the small things. Mainly insects and flowers. Here's my Flickr photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/yanongena/ * Astronomy: when I was living in Belgium I was on the board of a local astronomy club. I was doing lectures, classes and so on. Oh, and yes I also take pictures of the night sky. * Building robots: yes the ones that can take over the world. I focus less on building but more on the brains. I love making robots smart so I focus a lot on AI and try to let my robots make their own decisions. Needles to say that I love to read/write science fiction and fantasy. That's about it, I guess. I'm an open book so if anybody wants to know anything else, just ask
Better late than never, aye? Are you originally from the U.K? Something in the flavor of your screen name had me thinking you were Italian or maybe Portuguese for a while there.
Ah my screen name... Funny story. When we were on holiday in Italy when I was 14 I was using my dad his camera to shoot pictures of birds. There were a lot of sparrows and I wanted to know what the Italian name was... Passero. Since then I used it as my online alias... Nothing Italian, Portuguese or Spanish in my roots. I was born in Belgium and lived their until about 2.5 years ago. I moved to the UK to pursue my career in IT.
