Hello my name is Bryan Ho and this is my second year (possibly final, hopefully) at SDSU and my fifth year in total being in college/university. I am a transfer student from Mesa Community College, and my major is English and Comparative Literature. What I hope to achieve in life is becoming an author as I’ve always wanted to entertain people with my stories. I mainly write fantasy fiction and using tropes/story elements my way or in a way I would enjoy writing rather than following what’s popular within the genre. As a kid I never really liked reading, even fantasy books like Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings didn’t excite me and I always (kind of still do depending on what I’m reading) saw doing it as a chore. Flash forward to middle school and I find out it wasn’t reading itself that I didn’t like, it was that none of the books around me clicked, and when I found out what I truly loved to read? I began to collect these kinds of books a lot throughout the years, and currently I have three completely full shelves in my room alongside a desire to become an author. I’m a little bit embarrassed to share what those books are but they’re mainly from Japan and are called Light Novels, the reason being they’re comparatively ‘short’ to regular novels. Just the style of the stories and the way the authors wrote notes at the end of the books, thanking their readers sincerely for picking their novels up, thanking everyone from editors and artists in allowing their work to be published left a huge impression on me. Here’s hoping that this class will inspire my writing and that I’ll be having fun in it too. Thanks for reading.

(Me and my brother during Thanksgiving)