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I live in Kalm, in a one-bedroom apartment with nothing but the bare essentials - my fridge, my bed - no, correction - my mattress, a small TV, and this laptop I'm writing on. When you're a writer, you've got to learn to give up on luxuries - until you get famous, of course, but that'll never happen to me. I told my parents I was still working for the Science Department of Shinra, but really I couldn't stand one more day in Midgar. The people...the choking atmosphere...the monotony...and despite what I told my friends, the pay's not much either. A lot of the gil I had left went into buying this apartment...

Don't get me wrong though; I hated Midgar but I loved my job. Well, I thought I loved my job. Ever since high school it's all I wanted to be working with Shinra. Writing was something I did to pass the time - I was good (not great), but I know what kind of lives undiscovered writers live. Science, well, at least there was a stable income, as long as you're not working on some exotic project and desperate for funding. And there was always the thrill of the next discovery, the knowledge you're doing something good for mankind. Yes, science was the way I chose after university.

I thought the writer in me coexisted happily with the scientist, but here I am, penniless writer. I'll never be able to afford that holiday to the Golden Saucer I've been saving up for now, but for some reason, a better part of me is at peace.

You, dear reader, would surely understand that feeling.

Having stumbled across this site, I hope you'll stay a while with me. Discover why it is I strayed from the paved path of science onto the nitty-gritty dirt road of writing. If it's not too much trouble, spare me some pointers, tell me how I can improve. Who knows, perhaps one day, with your support, I'll be able to sit inside that giant roller coaster attracting at the GS and wonder why I was ever a scientist.

-H.
Jan 2007

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