The Road So Far

Ah, first entry. Unless you’re one of my personal friends, or find me incredibly interesting –assuming I’ve written more than just these few words– I’m honestly surprised you’ve stumbled across this page. It’s not that I find myself boring, but as the unspoken rules of the blogosphere go, reading the first few posts of a new blog is about as taboo as wearing nothing but a pink corset to a business meeting. (It flies in some circles, but most it’s just unheard of.)

So, how did I get here? Passing all the nitty gritty that gets us all here (it’s not that kinda blog!), my story sounds pretty similar to just about every other non-prodigy musician’s, writer’s, designer’s, or composer’s story. I started at a particularly young age, producing absolute drivel, but I have a supportive family that felt lying to me was a good idea. They said “I love it!” and told me to keep it up, and I did.

Piano lessons, public school band classes, Dungeons and Dragons with friends, an overactive imagination, various jobs to pay the bills, various bands to build my musical arsenal… I didn’t write much, not traditional writing anyway; that was my brother’s area. For those of you without siblings, that means I never considered writing as an option, but that didn’t mean the ideas never came, only that I never learned to polish them.

I started writing music for short films, church projects, and that lead me to sites like indiegamer.com, which lead me to PARPG.net, a project that I’m currently working on. I signed on to write music, and when the other composers started moving in, each with more experience, I opted to move into sound design. Being so early in the design process, and hanging out in the forums, I started contributing story ideas, with people taking note and seeming to enjoy what I was putting out.

I began reading game design blogs, hoping to find some direction I could move in PARPG, and I came to realize that all of my D&D games and overactive imagination were priming me for this.

This blog will serve as a progress report for everything I’m learning, and doing, concerning music, sound, writing, and design.

Here’s to moving forward.