Dan Ryan's SmallStories » Introduction–About http://brisbanegraphicartsmuseum.com/smallstories A Literary Public Service--All contents © 2010 by Dan Ryan unless noted Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:50:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 SmallStories–An Introduction http://brisbanegraphicartsmuseum.com/smallstories/2010/01/21/about/ http://brisbanegraphicartsmuseum.com/smallstories/2010/01/21/about/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:33:46 +0000 Dan Ryan http://phillycoolrob.com/wordpress_281/?page_id=2 I have wanted to do this for a long time. If I had started trying to be a writer of fiction twenty years ago, I would have failed because I did not have the experiences I believe one needs from life to tell a good story. At least not the kind of stories I want to tell to you. Surely, there are have always been gifted youngsters right out of college or university who have always been able to sit in a room and craft beautiful tales out of circumstances created entirely in their minds. I have never possessed such gifts. And I have never had the patience to write a story and attempt to get it published in the traditional submission-and-rejection manner, even in this age of the internet and email.

I want to tell you my stories my way. So I offer you this, SmallStories, an outlet, ego trip, and, perhaps, a refuge for stories crafted from all the ideas and observations that have been rattling around in my head for the last twenty years.

Not all of my stories will be happy, nor all of them sad. They will reflect experiences I have had and people I have met, and will come in the order in which my brain decides to concentrate on them and my fingers to write them. There will be some bad words and some uncomfortable ideas. But I have faith in your ability to enjoy my stories, just as I finally have faith in my ability to write them.

Welcome, and enjoy—Dan Ryan

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