Verbatim

I was 15 when I realized what I wanted to do with my life.  I had spent a few months and filled three 30-page scribblers, leftover from when I was in elementary school, with a handwritten story that began out of boredom before realizing that it wasn’t going anywhere.  But by that time I was hooked; not on the story, but on the telling.

My name is Colin Davis. I’m from Parrsboro, a small town in Nova Scotia.  I studied journalism for four years at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick.  I chose journalism because I thought I would learn how to write.  What I learned was how to tell a story.  Turns out it’s not the same thing.

My goal for the future is to be a story teller.  Right now that means writing novels.  But that’s only one way to tell a story, and I know a few others.  I can take pictures, I can shoot and edit video, and I cut together audio recordings.  On this portfolio are examples of all those things.

I’m also a musician.  I play guitar and mandolin.  The band I’m in is called the Station Agents. We have one album so far.

I recently moved to Toronto, to earn a paycheque and do some writing, preferably both at the same time.  I’m working on a novel, one that has been evolving over the last five years to the point where I now think that it’s worth writing/reading. I hope to have heard a yes or no from a publisher by the summer of 2010.  Hopefully a yes.