Daniel Steeves Connaughton

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Industry Engineering
Occupation CAD
Location Massachusetts, United States
Introduction I am a husband and a father and work as a CAD Operator/Space Planner by day. I write and edit (always, there is editing to be done!) whenever I get the chance, mostly late nights or early in the morning while the world is quiet. I find that writing the first draft on paper (the good old composition books are the best!) really gets the creativity going before taking it to the computer. I have completed manuscripts for four fantasy novels and am currently working on starting a fifth. I am an active member of the Online Writing Workshop for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. There, I am able to get solid and invaluable feedback on my work from other writers. A sure sign that I am working on another manuscript is when vast quantities of mismatched notepapers start cluttering my desk, materializing on the nightstand, and falling out of my pockets. I hope someday to get the two dozen plots for novels out of my head and formed into completed works.
Interests spending time with my wife and son, reading and writing
Favorite Movies The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Any thing with the words "Star" and "Trek" or "Wars" in it, all of the Sharpe's series (Sharpe's Rifls, etc), Master and Commmander: The Far Side of the World, TV Series Babylon 5
Favorite Music Lesium, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Soundtrack, Classical music, various soundtracks
Favorite Books A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin, Across the Nightingale Floor by Liam Hearn, Sharpe's Eagle and others by Bernard Cornwall, The Archer's Tale by Bernard Cornwall, The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien, The Black Company by Glen Cook, Empress by Karen Miller

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