Date:         Tue, 3 Feb 1998 23:16:27 -0800
From: madmaxx <bruce@ISLANDNET.COM>
Subject:      FILLER: INTRO: Bruce Alderson

Hi.

First, I'd like to say thanks for this amazing list.  I've seen a few
mailing lists, and WRITERS is easily one of the sharpest forums around.  The
volume may be high...but so is quality.

Mini-Bio:

I am a visionary, in that I see and hear my creativity.  I usually express
myself in rythmic patterned painting, prose and poetry...though I will
sometimes regress to smearing screams of simplicity.  My greatest weekness
is in the void that I devellop all my skills, as I rather discovery to
learning.

Most of my non-writing time is spent developing software on Vancouver Island
in western Canada (an inspiring location!).  I also love to bike, kyak, ski,
hike, and travel...but these tend to happen less frequently as the years
pass (I'm at 24).

I am so far unpublished (unless you count college rags), though I expect to
be working on a few technical books in the next few years.  Most of my
creative writing has been in short verse pop-poetry, which seems to ooze
from my mind.

Enough blather.  Here is a recent sample,

dream
[01.29.98]

scent of rosebuds
flood my mind
imagining our flesh
is intertwined

heart warmed breeze
of our embrace
soft silhouette cast
from your face

trace the contours
so carefully
paint a painful portrait
in fantasy

primal passions
of ignited flames
fantasy of the inferno
i dream in pain