ABOUT RYANPRIEST.NET

   This is my webpage for my writing career. If you can't tell I'm not that big a writer and I don't pay my rent with my writing. I couldn't even buy my groceries for a month with the money I've made on writing.

   So in a sense I almost feel like a joke having a webpage. I feel like a charlatan. Someone seeing a webpage for a writer expects some big star. I actually don't think anyone will ever see any of this. Maybe a family member will click a link and perhaps some bitter former rival or enemy will happen across it. But a fan? I don't think I have any. In fact I know I don't.

   I also don't know what I'll do with this webpage. I have ideas, releasing a novel in serialized format, a new chapter every week maybe. That'd be cool. I even toy with recording myself reading my stories or a chapter from a book and releasing it like a podcast. Again that sounds like fun but the thought of going through all that for absolutely zero audience sinks my gut to the floor. Because I know if I started I'd have to finish. I'd be too embarrassed not to.

   Even if I knew nobody was even reading it or downloading it I'd be forced to keep putting it out solely due to the fear that someone would happen across the non-finished project and taunt me with the failure. "Hey loser, what happened with the audiobook?" and that sort of thing.

   The internet can be a dangerous place. All too often a website ends up being nothing more than a neglected, tombstone of someone’s failed venture.

   Oh well, writing keeps me out of trouble and I can't think of anything else in the world that I find as much fun. So I'll continue to write but I just don't want to give anyone the idea I'm trying to pretend to be something I'm not.

BIOGRAPHY

( here's whre I talk about myself in the third person)

   Ryan Priest is a writer who lives in Los Angeles California. He likes blah blah blah and went to blah blah blah and here's a grinning picture of him that makes him look like a cocky jerk....ugh I can't do it.

   Here's the deal. If you want to know who I am then read my writing. You might not learn where I'm from, what I look like or how I'd react to you if we were to meet at the supermarket but you'll have a clearer picture of me than any set of random factoids could ever provide.

   No this isn't fair. My writing is a controlled environment. I decide what gets seen and what does not. It's the cherry picked very best of me. It's the part of me that I think is important. Everything else is just what I'm doing to try to get by in a world where I wake up hungry and thirsty every single day.

   There's so much manicured bullshit out there. I don't want to add to it so I'll just say nothing about myself. If you can't get enjoy something I've written without pegging me as the writer into some pre-existing stereotype based on what I look like, where I'm from or how I live then oh well.

   If something I've written makes your skin crawl and you go looking for a picture of me to ask "Is he allowed to say that?" Don't bother. Everyone's allowed to say anything they want to and you're allowed to judge them for it. But if my skin color, my race, my religion, my hometown, my gender(okay I'll admit I'm male) makes you judge me differently then that really says more about you than it does me now doesn't it?