The-Blunderbolt

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Hello! I'd like to thank you very much for taking time out of your day to read my humble Bio.

I'm a 17 year old Volunteer Firefighter in southern Maine. I received my PROBOARD Firefighting, HAZMAT Operations and ICS certifications through a vocational high school, the same one I attended for AP Photoshop, and am attending now for my EMT license.

I've always had an interest in writing compelling, engaging, epic stories ever since I learned how to read. In Kindergarten, my first year of school (I never attended Pre-School for some reason), I was reading chapter books a la The Magic Treehouse and Hank the Cowdog while the other kids struggled on words like "the" and, "and" This was probably because I used to haul out stacks of books at a time and force my mother to sit down and read them all to me. Over and over again.

My interest in writing nearly flopped when I wrote a short story for Language Arts in the fourth grade, about a secret agent who had to disarm a bomb. Apparently, little kids are not supposed to write such things in school. Especially just three short years after 9/11. Needless to say, I got many a talking to about my fictions.

I was again brought back to writing in the seventh grade, when I found that countless ideas for story arcs would latch themselves onto my mind and grow on my thoughts like tumors. They were nurtured, and eventually plotted out on paper. I plan to write this five-book series very soon. If I'm lucky, perhaps one day you might read one of my stories in a professionally published tome.

Around the same time, I also discovered FanFiction: the novice writer's training ground and show/book/movie love's paradise. At the time, I was obsessed with the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, and so I wrote a well-received fic for that fandom. A fic that I'm sorry to say, despite its popularity, was never finished due to reasons I'd rather not get into.

I was brought to MLP in the usual way, I overheard two of my friends talking about it one day. However, instead of them talking me into watching it, I gained a curiosity. A curiosity that I satiated after almost two months of teasing my friends for liking a show for little girls. I decided to start with the very first episode, which had a storyline that blew me away (comparatively. I mean, any good writer, or hell, anybody versed in plots can see nearly every episode's twists before they come. With the exception of the season two finale, I mean... there was no foreshadoing there AT ALL.) I watched every episode up to the latest one, (season two, episode 5) over the course of the next two days after school.

I was very impressed. My friends welcomed me to the herd with open arms. Eventually, the characters got stuck in my head, the same way the PJatO characters stayed. I's like they're living here, I can hear them talking to each other, whispering thoughts, desires, secrets. So, eventually, I decided to write a story. I sat down for a few hours one night and started what would become Trust. Over the course of three days (at about an hour or two a day,) Trust was created.

I showed my friends, and they were impressed. One of them offered to be my sketch artist and beta-reader, and so I coined a name for him: ImmortalMullet. I then sent Trust to Equestria Daily, meaning to just leave it as a gdoc, but then migrated it to FIMFiction. EqD sent me back an email that helped me straighten something out in the story concerning Spike, and then they threw it on their site. I was ecstatic.

And so, I've thrown some more words down on paper, made new friends, made art and have generally had a great time being a Brony. I can't wait to see what the future holds.

Have a great day!