Hello everyone, my name is Trevor Byington, and I just joined Steemit today. I've been looking for a place to post up some of my old fiction to get some mileage out of it, and Steem seems to have a nice combination of newness and community. None of this will have been published at the time of posting. Hopefully I'll be able to entertain some of you at the very least.
Who I am
I spent the majority of my childhood in California on the Central Coast. Around 14 I moved with my mom and siblings to Utah. So now that I'm 40 I guess I'm a...Utahn? Utanite? Utard? I live with my wife and 3 Pomeranians (which I learned today is called a tuft). I enjoy fast cars, neat scotch, and all the sugar I can get my hands on.
I graduated Cum Laude from Weber State University with a B.S. in Creative Writing as a non-traditional student, but have worked in software most of my adult life, which tends to trip people out. I've won a few small writing contests, made it to late rounds in others (such as the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction contest), but haven't had much luck in getting published. Still, I feel compelled to write enough to fill a couple of moleskine books a year, and most of it leans a bit toward horror.
I also like to develop small tools, and play in a few programming languages, right now I'm focused on Ruby on Rails. My day job is as lead QA for Instructure's professional services team. This means if you're in a school in the USA, Greenland, UK, Australia, or South America, you may have seen my work.
What I hope to do
Over the years, and throughout my college degree, I have built up a good sized collection of stories (from flash fiction to novellas) that I've either never bothered to submit for publication, or had turned down in the markets I submitted them (it's pretty hard to get speculative fiction into traditional literary journals). So while fighting off depression and anxiety for the past two years I've been wanting to re-edit these stories, complete the ones that I never completed, and post them online, one a month. I figured on using some blogging site, but could never settle on one. Until now.
I came across Steem a little over a year ago and was fascinated with the idea of locking proof of authorship into a blockchain, but until this week I could not take that final step of signing up.
I hope to get some of these stories out in the wild, maybe gain some readers to motivate me, get some honest reader feedback, and maybe make a few cents along the way. And, after reading through some of the getting started guides, I think maybe adding some info on my processes may be of interest too.
Let me know what you think, and I hope to get to befriend some of you over the years to come.
