Let me introduce myself

I am a professional programmer living and working in London.

Some of my earliest memories are not really mine. They belong to a little girl, whose quests and adventures used to put me to sleep… or at least get me in bed and on my best behavior. The girl – my parents never told me her name, but still I was pretty sure who she was – wasn’t perfect and that calmed me, but she was brave and strong, and she rose up to her challenges, no matter whether they involved slaying a dragon or two, or putting away her toys. I learned a lot from her, which, I guess, was exactly the point.

At an early age I got involved with computers. I studied hard and jumped few grades, finishing school at the age of fifteen. My next step was easy. I went to study in the country I loved the most. Great Britain. I knew exactly how great it would be; after all, I daydreamed it all during my last year at school. My daydreams turned out somewhat inaccurate: my knowledge of English was miles away from conversational, studying was hard and I ached for parents every day. But, as my bedtime heroine, I tried to rise up to the challenge. I’ve finished University at eighteen, became a software developer with a great company and made Britain my home. I still miss my parents though.

I always liked to write. Well, imagine first, then write it down sometimes. Somewhere along the line, while I was in Uni, I started writing all the time for my parents. Our roles reversed. I was embarrassed to admit that my real experience wasn’t a fairy tale I’d expected, so I wrote short stories for them. Those I could make fun and those I could control. Besides, it was a great way to teach them language that I fell in love with. Later, when I got a job, writing time became scarce so I developed a software program where I could enter my ideas, observations, quotes of the day. When enough data is available, the software provides a rough draft of a short story, which I polish and send to my parents. This is how I got an idea to write a full-length novel. I’ve got a title now and a plot that my program helped to formulate. I’ll try to write it and I hope it will be interesting enough to be read. This blog is a diary to track my progress and an incentive to make sure I don’t give up.