billyblueboy's profile

My name is Billy and I live in Texas.  I mostly like to write short stories and poetry, though it’s always been a long-term goal of mine to write a novel someday.  Time always seems to get in the way and keep me from finishing it, but who knows?  Maybe someday.  Anyway, the poetry I like best is rather classical in form, but not quite.  I don’t usually write sonnets or other historical forms like that, but I’m very demanding that once I do select a particular meter and rhyme scheme, that I stick with it consistently.  I’ve studied French, Anglo-Saxon, and Hebrew forms of verse, and there are aspects I like about all of them.  You might find influences from any of those types in my poetry.  My short stories are usually high fantasy, by wh…

My name is Billy and I live in Texas.  I mostly like to write short stories and poetry, though it’s always been a long-term goal of mine to write a novel someday.  Time always seems to get in the way and keep me from finishing it, but who knows?  Maybe someday.  Anyway, the poetry I like best is rather classical in form, but not quite.  I don’t usually write sonnets or other historical forms like that, but I’m very demanding that once I do select a particular meter and rhyme scheme, that I stick with it consistently.  I’ve studied French, Anglo-Saxon, and Hebrew forms of verse, and there are aspects I like about all of them.  You might find influences from any of those types in my poetry.  My short stories are usually high fantasy, by which I don’t mean swords-and-sorcerers type stuff, but fairy tales.  The authors whose work I most admire are Michael Ende, JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, and George MacDonald.  I am, at rock bottom, a lover of truth and beauty wherever I find it, and my deepest wish is to have those two things be reflected in my writing.