Hey all, I'm fairly new here but I came across this section of the forums as I breezed my way through. I figured this'll be a good a place as any to do some form of an introduction. Anyway, I started writing 3 years ago to relieve stress I was undergoing at my college. It helped a lot! Since I've started writing I've only finished one short story and started several others (just began a new one a couple days ago in fact). While publishing would be awesome it's not something I particularly desire for fiction to be honest. My real goal in writing is to get an academic paper publish in a journal some day on the late Roman Empire or Early-Mid Medieval Ages. Buuuut I'd be lying if I said I didn't want something published nonetheless if the whole academic thing doesn't work out. In fact my medieval teacher stated he is friends with a fellow who got a doctorate specializing on the Byzantine Empire but found no teaching job, so he wrote Byzantines in space and became a very successful author, go figure.