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Hello, my name is…. That Guy. Some who don’t know any better call me Thad Gee, but they’re wrong.

Kidding. Actually I’m Jonathan Wong. I’m just a hermit trying to shed his shell and actually make a career of my talents. I’ve joined a number of writing communities at staggering personal expense (Stinginess, not David, is my middle name), but I still struggle to make the time commitment necessary to get my full value out of them as well as get adequate time in on my writing – and actually remember to read as well as write. That has been a problem.

I guess my main genres are medieval historical fiction (hey there @Northerner), science-fiction, and fantasy, though they always seem to blend together. At the moment I am also writing an RPG adventure for an up-and-coming publisher local to my area in the hopes that it will be wildly successful and my lack of an advance will be repaid by my stupendous royalties, so I guess you can add supernatural spy thriller to that list as well.

One of the main features of my writing I am most self-conscious about, and particularly in the Christian writing communities I’ve joined like Kingdom Pen, Young Writer, and now here – is the dark tone and content of my writing. While I’ve sworn off the use of graphic content since coming to faith (besides those grim details associated with brutal fights and merciless wars), my themes, content, and characters are almost uniformly on the cynical or despairing side. The MC of my novel would be a shoe-in for ‘villain of the year’ award, her squire is a blindly loyal, self-aggrandizing hero-wannabe, and the only good people seem to be a maid and a former thief, and the latter’s bland, humbly self-sacrificing goodness in the present draft bother me tremendously. My hastily constructed entry for the inaugural short story contest was, in a word, “grim.” I often wonder whether the beams of hope that I try to shine in my work look like parody compared to the darkness they are meant to illuminate.

I am slightly less bothered by just how long I can go on tooting the flute of my worries. I really do complain too much.

On a more positive note, since I do have more free time at the moment, I would be glad to review and edit other peoples’ work. Without trying to sound my own trumpet, I know for a fact that I am good for style, dialogue, setting, and tone, and though I seem to unerringly write in the shadows, I am quite happy to read upbeat and optimistic works.

I need smiles and hugs. Pls send help.