Updated 08/21/2017 (the day of the eclipse in these environs)

I've been writing since I was 12 years old. Without context, that's pretty meaningless, so I will add that I was 12 in 1983.

I've only been writing fan fiction since the end of January, 2003, and my readers will tell you that I took an extended leave of absence from posting here from about 2013 till 2016. That doesn't mean I wasn't writing, just that I wasn't posting. Here are some lists that you all may find interesting.

Incomplete & Unpublished - Single Fandom

Incomplete & Unpublished - Crossovers

Incomplete & Published Here - Not Currently (or Soon) Updating

Completely Posted or Posting with an Unfinished/Unpublished Sequel

Aside from the sequel to Ardesco, there is also another completed SG-1 story that has been posted in elsewhere due to content, and it has a sequel that lacks only the falling action.

As you may guess from these lists, I write a lot, but I'm not always so good on the follow through. I want to work on that, but it becomes difficult when I start watching a new show -- The Flash, for example -- and want to start all new stories. I didn't even include the ones that are the barest starts on stories in these lists, which actually leaves out several fandoms.

After several disasters (Highest Bidder and Whumped come to mind), wherein I started posting an incomplete story with all good intentions and then failed to finish writing the tale -- so there's literally nothing more to post -- I made a personal rule. I do not post fics until I've actually finished them. It seems to be a recipe for disappointment for me and my readers both. Forgive me, I thought Once a Cop was done when I started posting, and it wasn't . . . quite. It's the falling action I seem to stop short of, often. Once a Cop and Your Brother's Keeper are both examples of the main story being done, and I just haven't tucked away the loose ends tidily yet.

Given the above statement, there is little point, dear Reader, in making suggestions, as you read Chapter 13, for what you think should happen in Chapter 20 -- or whenever -- because the story is actually already written. Some of them have, in fact, been written for years, and have been edited repeatedly over that period. This produces deep embarrassment from time to time when I discover an error that I somehow missed on the twelve or so read-throughs I've done.

Please realize that I am an author who does not always take the shows exactly as they come. My Jonny Quest universe is an idiosyncratic amalgam of the Classic show and TRA that leaves out any reference to alien lifeforms. My SG-1 universe tends to disregard any episodes that involve Teal’c and Jaffa of the opposite gender apart from his wife. In NCIS, Tony DiNozzo and his father are complicated. I named his father very firmly before the show actually introduced him, and I didn't notice the middle initial D on Tony's name badge in the episode Frame Up, so Tony and his father are stuck with the middle name Leonard as I made Tony a III before it came up in the show. It just seemed to fit. DiNozzo senior's personality is also very different than what I've seen so far . . . but I am woefully behind on NCIS. I don't think I've seen much past 7th season

Overall, I have a penchant for crossovers and AUs, which I know don't match everybody's tastes. In the case of Supernatural, I seem to have a particular liking for alternate histories.

Please read and review. It's how I know you folks are out there besides the slow ticking up of the numbers of hits/visitors on my traffic page.