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User ID: 5,316
Registered: 7th Dec 2011
Last Seen: 6h, 3m ago
Story views: 58,583

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Name: Hoopy McGee

Age: Probably much older than you

Gender: Male

Email: hoopymcgee@gmail.com

Favorite Writers in no particular order:

Terry Pratchett

Douglas Adams

Robert Jordan

George RR Martin

Neil Gaiman

Brandon Sanderson

Education: Mostly tech certifications, but I'm returning to school this year (online courses, mainly) to start work on finishing my diploma.

Why be a writer?

I've always enjoyed telling stories and using my imagination, and I've wanted to write since I was a little kid. I think the first story that I wrote was at about the age of 8. It was going to be a sci-fi epic where the only humans left alive were in an experimental space ship, because the earth had blown up for some reason. I wrote about two pages of it, got bored, and went to play video games. I think I still have that story around, somewhere.

I've written many stories of various (mostly awful) quality, but I wrote those for myself and not for anyone else to read. It wasn't until I started writing on FIMFiction that I actually tried making stories anyone else would like. The response has been amazingly supportive, and I'll always be grateful to MLP and the pony fandom for giving me a place to express myself.

What else besides writing do I do?

I'm self-taught on the guitar. Which means that I'm terrible at it, but I enjoy it. I draw some, but not well. I read almost constantly when I can, and I'm also a moderate gamer. I say moderate because I'm married, and it's hard to be a hardcore gamer and married. I'm a big fan of all kinds of animation, from kid's cartoons to Disney/Pixar to Japanese anime. If it's animated, I'll probably watch it.  

Anything else?

I've been married since 2004, but have no kids yet. Instead, we have a house and three cats, which gets to be a bit much when they won't shut up at 3 in the morning. I live in Minneapolis, MN, and I love it here. Except for an 8-month stint of living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I've lived my whole life within 30 miles of where I live now.