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Steven

My life has been pretty simple. I grew up in Alabama and graduated from the University of Alabama with a Bachelor's in Advertising. I have spent about the last ten years in web development. In 1998, a friend of mine and I started a web design company we ran for three or four years before deciding to close it due to the demands of school. Since then, I stayed in the web working with various companies in Alabama. I worked for a brief period with Southern Progress, namely with Southern Living magazine and Health magazine, in their web departments. While there, I also wrote for Southern Living magazine, Health.com., and the company's internal newsletter. I write as much as I can. For the last five years, I have been working on my first novel. I am on the third revision now and hope to be finished with this draft by the end of the year. I also write short fiction, though not as frequently as I used to due to the time I spend on the novel. My goal is to have my novel published in the next three years. Other interests include: History (particularly medieval and ancient civlizations), Reading, Foreign Language (I currently speak Spanish but plan to learn as many as I can), Landscape Photography, the outdoors, sports (especially college football), and Travel.

Medieval Timeline: Today in Medieval History

On this date, September 22nd, in medieval history: 530 – Death of Pope St. Felix IV 530 – Boniface II and Dioscorus both consecrated as pope simultaneously, resulting in a schism in the Catholic church 1241 – Death of Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician

Name Generators (Includes Medieval and Fantasy Name Generators)

Nine.frenchboys.net – An interesting site with all kinds of random generators, including: Medieval Name Generator Fantasy Name Generator Character Description Generator Place Name Generator City Generator Stronghold Creator Fantasy Place Name Generator Fantasy Novel Titles Plot Twist Generator And more … Some of these could be good starting points for… Read More »Name Generators (Includes Medieval and Fantasy Name Generators)

FullBooks.Com

FullBooks.Com is another site that provides the entire text of thousands of books online. A few days ago, I posted about ReadPrint.com, a similar site that offers novels and short stories and poetry. FullBooks.com has more than just fiction, and it’s catalog is huge. One thing I don’t like is… Read More »FullBooks.Com

Database Error

My site was having some database issues last night, so if you visited the site and saw an error page, that is what was happening. My host has resolved the problem now, and everything looks good. Sorry for the inconvenience.

The Forbidden Library

The Forbidden Library has a list of books that have either been challenged or banned, whether currently or at some point during the past. This list includes novels such as: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer  Cantebury Tales Catcher in the Rye Don Quixote Fahrenheit 451 Grapes of Wrath Hamlet King… Read More »The Forbidden Library

Medieval Timeline: Today in Medieval History

On this date, September 17th, in medieval history: 879 – Birth of Charles III (The Simple), King of France 1179 – Death of Saint Hildegard of Bingen 1271 – Birth of Wencenslaus II, King of Bohemia

911 Writer’s Block

911 Writer’s Block: An interactive site to help you break writer’s block. Press a number for help with a particular area of writing. Exercises include: settings, characters, dramatic entrances, dialogue, commiserate, verbs, calisthenics, killing off a character, endings, and more. *image retrieved from associatedcontent.com, credit to Writer’s Association

100 Best Novels List

A while back, the Modern Library composed a list of the 100 greatest novels of all-time. Its top ten included: ULYSSES by James Joyce THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov BRAVE NEW WORLD… Read More »100 Best Novels List