Willravel

I would have chosen sci fi 3 times if I could. I've been addicted to sci fi since before I could read or write, when my dad used to read me to sleep with everything from Isaac Asimov to Aurthur C. Clarke to Ray Bradbury to Frank Herbert. It's nothing short of an addiction, and I always look for it in a good novel. If I ahd to choose a favorite....I don't know if I can do this....Orson Scott Card or Aurthur C. Clarke.
Partly I want a decent creative outlet that can be purely from me; no collaboration. My wife friends and family are really supportive of my writing. Sometimes in my line of work, I have to take a good hard look at the least favorable sides of humanity. Science fiction is about the creation and saving of hope. Hope for science, hope for society, hope for humanity, hope for existence.
I love rading throught science journals and reading published papers comign from all over. I have a network of friends who circulate all the new frontiers of science, anthropology, psychology, sociology, etc. I also look at current events and history. It's amazing how much stuff hass happened.
Sci fi. But I'm not afraid to do mysteries, dramas, action, suspense, thrillers, and such. I still haven't tried anything mainly romantic yet.
I write mainly for myself, but recently I've started writing for my daughter. I want her to understand my perceptions and interpretations from my varoius phases of writing when she gets older.
I want people to think. I want my readers to stop and consider possibilities that never occoured to them before, and for them to allow those ideas to evolve in their minds. I want their horizons to grow, and mine aswell.
I am a veracious writer. I'll finish a novel in 2 or 3 days of writing straight. I'm not sure how often an author is expected to write, but it drains me completly. I can't do it very often. If I was to become a writer as a profession, I wouldn't want to write more than 2 or 3 books in a year. I hope they'd sell enought ffor me to be able to do that.
When I was in high school I wrote a novel about a connection betweren subatomic physics, the nature of the universe, and music. It had a Mozart-like character who found a direct link between the theory of music and quantum theory. I was really pround of it. My physics teacher shot it down a few times, but by my 5th or 6th reweriting, he thought it was worth trying to get published. I haven't thought about getting it published for years, but I might do it if I have the time to update the science. Quantum physics has changed even in the past 4 years.
I would be happy if people I'll never meet were able to enjoy something I wrote. If it failed, I'd probably be dissapointed but I wound't stop writing. I'd like to think I'd never sell out.