Introduction

Hello there!

You might know me. Then again you might not. So here's the standard 'introduction' thing.

My name is Shane Rynhart. I'm a writer, or at least I like to think I am. Or at least, I like to think I will be. As I write this, I'm a second year Creative Writing and Media Studies student at the University of Winchester. I like it. Lots. I think I've become a much better writer (and media...person) from doing it, even though I'm just about halfway through my degree. But anyway, onto more important things.

Why have I set up this blog? I should point out that this is, technically, my third blog. The first is something I call my 'personal' blog where I just vent things, really. The other is called Mirakulous and was going to be my comments on the media and stuff. It kind of tailed off when I started getting more inundated with coursework and stuff, but if you want to take a look at what little is there, you can find it at http://mirakulous.blogspot.com. I might even pick it up again at some point. It was fun!

And that, friends, was a lesson in dodging the question. Which, as you'll recall if you cast your eye an inch or so up the page, was 'Why have I set up this blog?'

Well, there isn't really a simple answer, I'm afraid. Firstly, I'm not going to be using this as a 'proper' blog. It is going to be a kind of 'hub' for all the writing I've ever done. Well, most of it. A bit like a CV, I guess. Hence sometimes there might be a splurge of posts, other times nothing for weeks. I'll put up the stuff I've got gradually as we go into the new year.

There will be two very notable exceptions, though. One is the Nexus series. This is a (currently unfinished) project of mine, which is a trilogy I started writing when I was 16. The whole first part and about quarter of the second are finished, but I haven't gone back to it. It is, though, pretty damned big and put simply, I can't be arsed to carry it all over. There is good news however! It is availiable on the Internet already. Feel free to check it out at www.freewebs.com/nexus_books. But whatever you do, don't put 'Nexus Books' into Wikipedia. Seriously.

The other exception is Operation: Sleeper Cell. O:SC was (well, is) a game that I spent a year of my life working on. It's an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) which raised money for Cancer Research UK. We did pretty well, too. I was the lead writer on the project, which meant I wrote, ooh, probably somewhere in the region of 50,000 words, I reckon. I didn't do all the writing, but I probably did about 93.72% of it. There or thereabouts. A mammoth undertaking for someone who's still (just!) a teenager, I'm sure you'll agree. You can find more information about the game itself at http://www.operationsleepercell.com and http://www.law37.com. Meanwhile, most of the writing I did for the project can be found split between http://www.wearenottheagency.com, http://www.plasticcastlemagic.com and http://www.bespokeleather.co.uk. Please do check them out so that I know I didn't waste a whole year!

So that's it in a nutshell basically. Stay tuned for stories, articles, scripts and maybe even a couple of poems. But they'll be rubbish. The poems, I mean. Hey, can't be good at everything, eh?

Oh wait, one more thing. Why 'Zebra Jimnie'? It's the name of the make of pen I've been using for notes, writing and lots and lots more ever since I was about 12. Consistancy's always a good thing. Well, that and the fact it was the first thing on my desk that I could find. And only after about ten other blog addresses I tried turned out to be taken. But hey, these things happen for a reason, right? (Write?)