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Andrew Gudgel's Writing Home Page
Who I am and what I do
I started writing in high school. Poems, Stories, you name it. My school offered Chinese as a language my senior year(?!?), and I found that I liked that a lot too. So I went to college and studied classical Chinese. Even spent a year at a Chinese University. Read Confucius in the original. Classical Chinese opened up a whole new world of literature--ancient poetry forms and baroque, 108-character novels. I came back even more pumped up to be a writer. Then I realized I had a bunch of tuition bills to pay. So I joined the Army--"Just pay off my loans and get out," I thought. I spent the next twelve years bouncing around the planet: Iraq (the first go-'round), Somalia, Bangladesh. Then I discovered Embassy Duty, and worked in China, Poland, Kenya, and Tanzania. Coming back to the US after being away for so long meant getting used to a whole new foreign country. I got out of the Army in 2002, and went back to my first love, writing. I now make a living as a freelance writer, specializing in conference and other reports. But I'll write anything...fiction, nonfiction, poetry. Even fortune-cookie fortunes. I also do the occasional Chinese-English translation.
(C) 2005-2008 Andrew Gudgel