Ramblings of a designer turned fiction writer

The journey that saw me finally become a published author

SERIES: Designer to author

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The long and winding road to…

Some might say I’ve taken a non-traditional journey to becoming an author, meandering through a lifetime of excuses and careers, while others, like myself, would likely respond that there is no traditional path to writing.

Don’t get me wrong. Along the journey I studied and earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. But the journey I took to get there, and the one since certainly didn’t follow the path of a writer.

I’ve always been one of those strange people who knew exactly who, and what, I wanted to be. From a very young age I wanted to be a writer. I surrounded myself with books. Books were probably my best friends, apart from my friend Charlie, when I was a boy. Books were my go to for escape, knowledge, adventure, and learning about the world — and other worlds.

So when I found myself in university studying engineering it was a bit of a shock. Studying engineering when you had the mind of a creator of worlds was an interesting experience. Let’s just say I was never the traditional, run of the mill, engineer. I…