Dargon Project Writers
Liam Donahue

So, what's an extraordinarily left-brained engineer doing writing fantasy stories for DargonZine? Well, it's true, except for writing I have absolutely no artistic skills. I have always loved reading, particularly fantasy, thanks to early influences by C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia and some books by a guy named J.R.R. Tolkien. Then I got into the hard stuff: Fafhrd, the Gray Mouser, Conan, Kane. You know, the usual crowd of miscreants. I was hooked.

I first started writing when I was around sixteen. It didn't take me long to realize that my writing was derivative crap, and I gave it up for almost twenty years. Then a strange thing happened. I got involved in some on-line written roleplaying at a site called The Tipsy Imp. I discovered that I really enjoyed it, particularly when a character or storyline took over and demanded to be written. When the Imp closed down, I decided to try to get something that I had written published. Along the way, I stumbled into Dargon. It didn't take me long to figure out that it was a strange and wonderful place, so I decided to stay.