My pen name is shadowinkling, for I am a fellow traveler and scholar living and trailing behind the minds of the great Inklings of the Eagle & Child Pub.
I write because I was made to create.

“The only freedom you truly have is in your mind, so use it.”

M.T. Dismuke

"Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language."

Lev Grossman

"We create because we were made to create, having been made in the image of God, whose first role was Creator."