User:Wizzyrd

Wizzyrd's Wikipedia User Page
Draft Created: Friday February 8th, 2013 Final Edit: Tuesday February 12th, 2013

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My name, in the real world, is John Adams Jr. and I'm currently a Free-Lance Writer & Designer living in Saint Augustine, Florida. My work consists of writing and editing magazine and e-ews articles, Blogs, and other web content. My favorite things to write, though, have always been fictional pieces; Mystery, Fantasy & Science-Fiction especially. Contracts for short stories and novellas come at random intervals but are fairly frequent. The full-size novel, on the other hand, is kind of the publishing mother-load but it's usually the writer searching for the contract in this case. I am currently working on two full-size books at this time. One is a fantasy-fiction taking place in modern Chicago; the other is a non-fiction text for the layperson on understanding the Supernatural, including Demonology and Exorcism. The majority of my income these days comes from free-lance writing work like this. I enjoy it, and it pays!

I also continue to take design contracts, but not as frequently as I use to. My specialty is Lighting and Special Effects. I have designed Lights, Laser and pyrotechnics for Theatre, Opera, Dance, and Concerts; plus permanent architectural installs like clubs. I started my design work in 1987 and have designed for over 250 stage shows, a Film, and a couple TV commercials. I also was the winner of the Off-Off Broadway award for Lighting Design for my work on "The Godsend" on Theatre Row in Manhattan. I spent several years designing and developing Web Sites and writing code for any special web applications. I did three of these as the a senior programmer/analyst in Web Services at a Medical School in upstate New York. To get that job I had to take a series of classes and do a lot of self-study in web programming an interactive telecommunications to transfer my design knowledge and techniques to the computer. Studying and practicing new things is what I live for, though, and it expanded my design range so that when I first started working free-lance for a living in 2002 I had a solid basis to work from. I only started writing professionally quite recently though. I’ve always enjoyed it, but an unexpected situation disabled me six years ago enough so that most work is impossible for me. Cerebral and Creative/Artistic work is still well within my means as is consulting. Recently even field-work has become possible up to a point. With writing I found that working with the right agencies I could make a good living so that I can pick and choose only the Design Jobs that I like or that pay well enough for it not to matter :-)

I also take contracts and do gratis jobs as a consultant. For the past twenty years, or so, I have studied Demonology, The Occult, and various Paranormal Phenomenon. I’m also a amateur scholar of Eastern and Western Theology. Recently I have begun doing a little consulting work for other authors, directors or producers that needed detailed information on occult practices, or ”paranormal lingo” for their books or movies. Law enforcement also sometimes needs information on ritual practices, symbols and tools that sometimes show up at crime-scenes. I haven't had the opportunity for any paid consulting with law enforcement here, but they know I’m available. I would also like to get involved with some of the Paranormal Investigators in the St. Augustine area. This town has an enormous amount of “Haunted History” and something like ten Paranormal or Psychic Societies running around investigating things. It is my opinion someone should be keeping them aware of the supernatural dangers with this type of practice. I haven't been consulting these types of clients very long and don’t involve myself personally in these cases often, and then only to help people who feel they are being victimized, or to assist investigators who’ve gotten themselves “in-over-their-heads”. I also have a list of more experienced people, like understanding physicians and clergy, for assistance when I feel like I am about to be in the same way. For more news on the book or information on my opinions on these subjects, check out my web sites listed below.

Now, when not working I am a huge media hound watching hundreds of movies and TV shows, old and new, or reading e-books on my Nook. As I mentioned above I am happiest while studying something, in fact I probably would consider myself a Scholar if this was an ancient civilization. But then if we were in an ancient time, there would be no Star Wars, Doctor Who, or Anime and I would probably go insane. Currently I am back into one of my occasional “All-Japan-all-the-time” phases, where I get obsessed with classic Samurai Movies like the ones by Akira Kurosawa with Toshirô Mifunei, or books on sword-making. I have seen over 150 old Samurai movies, which is not that many really, and can explain to you how to forge a Katana, or tie a Kimono. I admit this information is not all that vital, but who cares? I know people who know how to speak Klingon and that’s pretty useless but I still think it’s cool. I go through many “obscure-interest” phases and continue to learn new things each time. These things, plus all the other stuff crammed into my head over the years provides the knowledge-base I use when writing. My life may not seem all that exiting but Hey, I take what thrills are available whenever I can get ‘em

Anyway this is really only an excerpt from a larger biography that I copied for my Wiki page while I was procrastinating for a recent job writing 50 reviews with a 30 hour deadline...Yay! Well I got ‘em done and came back to add this contact information: You can get to know John (Wizzyrd) Adams Jr. on his personal site: The Wizzyrd's Web or read his latest opinion on pocket lint or other vital world issues at: 'A Final Word with Wiz', his Blog. If you want to e-mail him use his Wiki-Address or send one to john.adams.jr@att.net

-Peace!

--Wizzyrd (talk) 01:35, 14 February 2013 (UTC) --Wizzyrd (talk) 22:54, 12 February 2013 (UTC) --Wizzyrd (talk) 02:22, 9 February 2013 (UTC)