My whole life I had few ideas of what I wanted to do for the future. From having a family or my dream job, there wasn't much to think about. When you grow up with a mom who has a Masters in Counseling, you become very well adjusted early on in life. I knew that most High School relationships were dumb and full of pointless drama, so I avoided them. Don't get me wrong there were girls that I would have liked to date, but never really tried to. For a job, all I ever did with my time was play sports and video games so I had ideas of becoming a professional athlete or a YouTuber. Both ideas would take time and effort I wasn't yet willing to give yet. Then college rolled around and I was at a place in my life where i wasn't mature enough for college, but I wanted to finally be free as an adult. So, I worked and filled my time with activities and hobbies that I found interest in. My friends and I would golf during the summer and play hockey during the winter, I read more books and watched different movies.

I opened myself up to these new experiences like I never had before. The first to notice this change was my mother. One day during a dinner that just happened to be me and her, my step-dad and half-siblings were gone camping, and she looked at me and said I had become more of an adult in the last weeks. I may have dropped out of college and was working a job that seemed menial, but I was in a managerial position and making good money, I was outside more and meeting new people.

Then one night, I was reading the Percy Jackson series and thought to myself, "What if Percy had landed on Calypso's island sooner, how would that work out?" so I went online and discovered the wide, and strange, world of Fan Fiction. This was amazing, all these people were making new adventures and stories out of what already existed. so I joined up and wrote my first Fan Fiction. It got follows and favorites, more and more people started to read my story and I thought to myself, "Wow, writing is fun," this coming after High School where any writing assignment was the work of the Devil, so I was surprised to say the least. Then my friend was telling me about a website that allowed users to post articles on anything they want and that he had just been accepted to be a writer on it. The Odyssey. Here I am, laying out my life, basically, and giving my ideas and opinions a place to rest and be spread around. My name is Ryland Wood, and I'm the New Guy.