I've been in the writing game for close to three years now, and I admit it's still a struggle for me to get my rather unique works of science fiction and fantasy out to the reading masses.  But it's a worthy if trying cause I chose to take up, because if you can't be doing what you know is right for the true self in you, then don't bother doing anything at all.

As far as my writing influences go, they include J.R.R. Tolkien, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, Rod Serling, Michael Moorcock. Alan Moore, Dr. Isaac Asimov, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Larry Niven, H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, L. Ron Hubbard (pre-Dianetics), Harry Bates, Jack Williamson, et al.