Welcome
Welcome to my Workshop. Before any more serious undertakings, a few introductory remarks are in order.
Who am I?
I am a Hoosier currently living in a petite house in the suburbs of Chicago with my significant other and our three cats and dog. My academic training, which is, of course, how academicians self-identify, is in science, which can be narrowed to chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and even further to nanomaterials. In another year or so, I'll attain the pinnacle of higher education (as measured in years in school; I don't make that claim on any other basis) and obtain a Ph.D.
While science is my vocation, my avocation is writing. I have plenty of opportunity within my field, writing papers that summarize my findings for the scientific community (after peer review, of course), but I also write literary and science fiction.
What will I do here?
A workshop is, of course, a place of many projects, and this Workshop will be a forum for me to share both my extracurricular scientific interests as well as my writing.
For example, I have developed a reputation for exploring unusual hobbies, the typical lifecycle of which includes a period of intense research followed by the development of some product (and eventually loss of interest). Topics range from the manufacture of a maille hauberk as part of my interest in 10th and 11th Century Norman history as a teenager to building a bee condo this fall to house next spring's solitary bees. I will share what I learn and the process involved in the physical product, if there is one.
I will also post excerpts of recent writing and invite reader responses. Here's your opportunity to shape a work of fiction prior to publication.
You haven't written very much here yet. What else is there for me to read?
I hope to have a novel ready for publication within the next few months, but in the mean time, I'll refer you to blogs I have kept previously and, if you're so inclined, to my scientific articles.
An Eventual Hobbit Travel adventures in Peru, musings of the past year
Utulei, Tramway above Chief Afoa Lutu's Residence A summer in American Samoa
Scientific Research
Who am I?
I am a Hoosier currently living in a petite house in the suburbs of Chicago with my significant other and our three cats and dog. My academic training, which is, of course, how academicians self-identify, is in science, which can be narrowed to chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and even further to nanomaterials. In another year or so, I'll attain the pinnacle of higher education (as measured in years in school; I don't make that claim on any other basis) and obtain a Ph.D.
While science is my vocation, my avocation is writing. I have plenty of opportunity within my field, writing papers that summarize my findings for the scientific community (after peer review, of course), but I also write literary and science fiction.
What will I do here?
A workshop is, of course, a place of many projects, and this Workshop will be a forum for me to share both my extracurricular scientific interests as well as my writing.
For example, I have developed a reputation for exploring unusual hobbies, the typical lifecycle of which includes a period of intense research followed by the development of some product (and eventually loss of interest). Topics range from the manufacture of a maille hauberk as part of my interest in 10th and 11th Century Norman history as a teenager to building a bee condo this fall to house next spring's solitary bees. I will share what I learn and the process involved in the physical product, if there is one.
I will also post excerpts of recent writing and invite reader responses. Here's your opportunity to shape a work of fiction prior to publication.
You haven't written very much here yet. What else is there for me to read?
I hope to have a novel ready for publication within the next few months, but in the mean time, I'll refer you to blogs I have kept previously and, if you're so inclined, to my scientific articles.
An Eventual Hobbit Travel adventures in Peru, musings of the past year
Utulei, Tramway above Chief Afoa Lutu's Residence A summer in American Samoa
Scientific Research
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