I’ve worked in Marketing, Advertising, Video Production, Education and Insurance. I’ve been a web developer, web designer, graphic designer, multimedia specialist and web content specialist freelance writer and I once even sold American Girl dolls for a semester. So, I’ve done some stuff. Strangely, I don’t much write about my work experiences (if I want to read about people suffering, I’ll look out the window). I will not be writing about my current employer. It would bore you to death anyhow.

Anyway, here’s the boilerplate:

Eric Staggs is a Wisconsin-based writer, known for his unusual sense of prose and an enduring passion for science- and speculative fiction. As a graduate of the Creative Writing program of Columbia College Chicago, Eric uses his skills to create thought-provoking and bone-jarring short stories and flash fiction pieces.

His perceptive and sometimes cutting film and restaurant reviews have been published repeatedly in the Wisconsin-based Arts and Entertainment magazine, Volume One.

Eric has worked as a professional freelance web content writer since 2006 and is currently working on his first full-length novel.

A few more things before we part ways for the moment. Napoleon said “One does not compose the Illiad by studying grammar.”

For a short French man, he was quite right. In college, I studied story and character, plot, scene and the mythology of adventure, the chemistry of tension, the techniques and tools of telling tall tales. I did not study demonstrative pronouns, gerunds or contranyms (if you did, you have my sympathies). So, please don’t expect my “gramma ta be all propa”. I write like I speak, with frequent pauses, parenthetical statements and alliteration galore. (read – gathering my thoughts, mumbling under my breath and penchant for rhyming like a poet who didn’t know it) Put another way, my English 101 class was called “The Origins of Creativity and how it manifests in Art, Literature, Poetry and Film” not “Composition and Grammar.”