Explore Steve Wyatt’s Written Works
Discover Steve Wyatt’s Writing Path
Humble Beginnings
I remember writing a story when I was little. I used the lined paper that has two bolds lines and a dashed line midway between so a small child can form his or her letters correctly.
“It was my birthday,” I wrote carefully between the lines. After staring at the page for a while, I ran into the room where my mother was grading papers. “Mom, is there usually snow on my birthday?” “No, son.”
“There was no snow on the ground. I got caught talking in class. I had to run around the school twelve times. That is why I am the fastest runner in the class. The End”
Fast Forward to my Foray Into Journalism
Though my legs are long enough to reach the ground when I am standing (and many times when I am sitting) they are inconducive to playing basketball. My high school was very small, so my choices were playing basketball or writing for the school newsletter.
I wrote sports articles and worked on production. We had a mimeograph machine to make the copies. I remember the pungent smell of the chemicals and the repetitive motion of cranking out the copies.
Turn the Crank
My next published journalistic work was an article in the National Speleological Society News, a monthly magazine. I had written a computer game called Computerized Caving which struck the editor’s fancy (or they were desperate for content.) The article described the game and included the source code.
A few years later, I wrote an article on gravity wave communication. It was a spoof on how technology could circumvent the stultifying limitation of the speed of propagation of light by using gravity waves whose speed of propagation is instantaneous. The article collapsed under its own weight, especially when the circulation of the magazine that published it soared into the single digits.
Steve writes from his passion for knowledge.
Steve Wyatt
Author & Storyteller
