Hi!
I’m David Haywood Young. Yes, the Haywood part is real, but do I actually use my middle name? Only to stand out from all the other David Youngs on the internet.
I suppose you want some info. Otherwise you’d be on another page entirely. So…I’m in my mid-50s, devilishly handsome, totally hot…
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I mean: I really love writing. I always have. Growing up, I spent a lot of time reading. More than a few of the books and magazines I read made quite an impression…so this happened: I acquired many, many role models to learn from. Not that there are any public records indicating schizophrenia. That’s all just speculation on your part.
So…now, I use writing as a way to explore ideas. Everything else fails if I don’t write entertaining stories, so that comes first, but along the way I hope to uncover a bit of the world that I hadn’t previously considered. I hope you’ll come along with me and help me explore.
Yes, that means my fiction can get a bit weird. Hell–it’s nearly always at least slightly strange. If it weren’t, I’d lose interest. And I do lose interest sometimes. So I go back and change things around, until I figure it’s worth continuing. Takes a little more time, but I wouldn’t want to write any other way.
Lessee. What else? I also write software. I worked for a couple of big companies and several startups. Later I started my own company–Cabin Fever Software and Brewing Company, LLC–but the brewing part is just a joke. Though I do homebrew beer.
Cabin Fever Software’s main product is an app called Scarecrow that’s basically about monitoring and protecting websites from both hackers and business relationship failures. Online business continuity insurance? It’s important to some of us!
Many years ago I used to play a lot of poker, originally in cash games in Texas but later in public cardrooms, mostly in Vegas. I’m married to a wonderful woman. We have a daughter (Brigit) who’s ten years old and frighteningly everything.
Maybe you’ll like my stuff. Maybe not. Either way, thanks for coming by!