User Introduction: Aeternis

Greetings, fellow Steemit users.

I don't know too much about this community yet; it was recommended to me by a person more knowledgeable in the social content network space than myself. So far, it seems to be an interesting place, but I'm still exploring. I'm not sure what people usually put in these introduction posts, so I'm just going to do what I do best: Throw text at the screen and see what sticks.

About

My name is, at least on the internet, Aeternis. I'm a software engineer from the United States, but I will probably never post here about my life in the software trenches. In the time I don't spend at the office, I write fiction, and this community seems like a good place to share it. Most of this will be original science fiction, but I can't say for sure that there won't be anything from another genre occasionally.

At the moment, I'm working on a manuscript (my second) for a novel about interstellar pirates which I have yet to title despite sinking almost sixty thousand words into it, and I am also working on a web-based fiction project, Cosmic Background, which is, at least so far, a lot smaller.

Though I've been writing on and off for some time, I don't really have much of an audience because I haven't made much of my content available for public consumption. I've always been a little bit suspicious of social networks, but I am grudgingly forced to admit that they're not going anywhere, and that for a writer, they can be quite useful. I do also mean to be a consumer of content on this site, once I get my bearings.

Content

A lot of my posts on Steemit will probably be excerpts from my Cosmic Background effort; a big part of it is told as a series of short stories about the experiences of "interstellar professionals" in the distant future. I'll try to remember to link back to the full project on these posts, in case anyone is curious enough to click through. I will probably also post a few oddball short stories here, as I write them or rediscover them buried in the three cloud accounts that support my writing habit.

If you read and like my posts, feel free to let me know it, but if you don't like them, I would appreciate it if you let me know why that is. Well thought out criticism is extremely valuable, especially to a part-time writer like myself, even if it's just a few sentences.

Writing on the Wall

The system tells me that it's traditional to post a picture of myself with the date and my username written on a piece of paper, to prove that I am not a bot. I spent an inordinate amount of time looking for a decent, white sheet of paper and a sharpie with which to perform this ritual, but all I found were neon markers, so there was a little bit of improvisation involved. While I can't definitively prove that I'm not a robot, I can at least prove I have mediocre handwriting and a basic ability to hang store-bought photography prints: