I’m a Christian author from Kentucky (they do exist). I started my “career” in writing in 8th grade when I started jotting down the most stupidest mysteries ever conceived. In fact, they were so dumb I gave them away to a friend who has hopefully lost them by now. After 8th grade I thought the whole writing thing was just a phase (though I should note I was also writing poetry and songs,which I was praying was not a phase!). But then midway through my first semester as a freshman in a small Christian school in Kentucky (they also exist) I returned to the familiar ground of writing goofball mysteries involving real people. But this time I realized something thanks to their popularity. I thought, “you know, if someone with the IQ of an alarm clock could read and understand this, maybe I could get these published someday!” So the first thing I did when I got home that day was “test run” a story on my alarm clock. It was speechless.
Overjoyed, I continued writing The School-Time Mysteries (creative, right?). Each school year I pushed myself more and the quality improved. My sophomore year I began my first real novel, The Stalking Shadow, based on the series. I finished it a year later and kept plugging away at the short stories. By the time of my high school graduation, I was wrapping up the humorous mystery series and trying to branch out and put some other ideas under my belt. By “other ideas” I mean “one story” but it was a start. Over the last years of high school I was starting to gain a hunk of story concepts that will keep me quite busy for the next few years.
Now my next task is to somehow get that story published! And I reckon that that’ll be quite a challenge, but God will provide and until then I will wait patiently.

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November 23, 2010 at 9:58 pm
Charlie
Hey John, found your blog
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Is there some mysterious, deep reason why the first paragraph’s font is smaller than the last two?
Also, have you posted the writing you talk about somewhere for everyone to read? Are they somewhere on this blog?
November 23, 2010 at 11:25 pm
John Underdown
hey Charlie, glad you could join the hoppin party here (lol).
The font’s the same size on my computer…your computer clearly needs to get its fonting straight…or something like that (lol).
As to the writings, the School-Time Mysteries you can find on http://schooltimemysteries.freewebspace.com …however, the Stalking Shadow and Plethora have yet to be published…
February 9, 2011 at 10:34 pm
John Underdown
hey i figured it out! i think it’s fixed now!