About Me — Ctopher

About Me — Ctopher

Just thinking isn’t enough.

In A NutShell

My name is Christopher, or Ctopher which suits me better. I write here at After A Fashion. If I could change my real name, I would in a heartbeat. I plan to; just haven’t gotten around to doing that yet. I don’t want to anger my parental figures. Yet, I write like a rock that has fallen off the left wing of some bird that was going in right circles.

I don’t like niches. I write for myself. You can read my stories for free. I want people to read me. You see, I’m very bored, and long for the kind of stardust that people find after they have been famous for fifty years and died a huge success.

Who, What, How, When, Why

I’ve been here on this planet, for forty-eight years, as of today. That would be four times that Jupiter has revolved around the sun. I don’t like to think like a mortal. I’m different, and likely a misfit. But, ssshhh, don’t tell anyone.

I’ve been a writer, at first by hope. Then by fate. Now, by choice. It may be true that I fit some stereotype of neurotic writers that people seem to think are true. I wrote compulsively and have typed almost six million words in my life.

I would like to think, I’m a creative. I have done photography, professionally. I’ve done some things with video, and music. I used to be a computer IT dude. I can program Perl, PHP, JavaScript, and some C++. I have done HTML for a very long time, since ’96. I have some experience in Network Engineering. I’m a Mac guy, that likes the ladies.

I’m really into music, although I couldn’t tell you the names of the musicians who play in bands; I know artist names. There is a wide variety of music I listen to. Classical, rock, punk, Alternative, maybe some emo, and goth.

I’m a perfectionist, but rush all the time. Sometimes, I miss the mark.

I’ve kept a website for a long time. Being a lonely website, I decided to join the crowd, here at Medium. It’s been somewhat lonely here too. I find that I don’t want to be a professional writer, I write because I must.

I have written four books. It would be questionable, if they are any good. If I were to base anything on the number of people that have read them, it would be a dismal failure. If I were to base it upon what I think of them, I would be asking myself why people haven’t read them yet? I don’t.

Join Medium so you can comment on my stories, and clap for the good ones. Really, you should. For five bucks a month, it’s a good deal. And having people clap for my stories would make me feel better if they actually were to read the whole story.

I long for a conversation. If you can talk with me about what I write, please do such. I would love that. Give it some thought. I need feedback.

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