Welcome!

Howdy! Welcome to my feeble attempts to impress the world with my writing. My name is John Silvio and I'm a graduate student in journalism. But I've been writing fiction since second grade. So I'm going to try to write both. My goal for now is one nonfiction and one fiction post per week, while blogging whenever I feel like it. My nonfiction writing is going to be split between traditional journalism, more opinion-oriented pieces, and maybe some essays and pieces that are all those things. For fiction, I'm going to start with three projects. My untitled novel (which I've tabbed Werewolves for now) features the adventures of a young financial professional, an ex-CIA conman, a wolfman, and a tabloid reporter who all get tied up in an absurdist plot by the Russian mob to... well, I don't want to give it all away. Then there's Pine Rat my B-movie script about killer squirrels on the Boston Common, and then just a bunch of random short stories I've written. My blog (this thing you're reading here) is going to be a mix of announcements and other miscellanea, but I'm thinking I'm mostly going to bore you with my amateur philosophical musings. So enjoy!