Contrary to popular belief, Gavin Williams is not a mental patient escaped from the asylum. Maybe he should be, but that never actually happened. It’s not even that popular a belief.
What he is right now, is a husband and a father. He’s also trying to be a writer in his spare time. He won’t talk about his job because it doesn’t pay him enough to include the free advertising.
He has a B.A. in English from the Glendon campus of York University, which is ironic because Glendon is York’s French campus. He has half a master’s degree in theology from Emmanuel College, part of Victoria College in the Toronto School of Theology, at the University of Toronto. He was never sure why so many names had to be layered on top of one degree, but that question became irrelevant when he left.
One of Gavin’s friends described him this way at Glendon: “You’re spiritual, not religious.” Because of that fine distinction, he realized that one master’s degree from four bureaucratic layers of one school was kind of absurd, especially when he discovered that religious organizations have little to do with the Spirit. Right now he has a more universal, rather than denominational, perspective, and embraces science, philosophy, literature, art and music as paths to the divine, while studying the plethora of religions in the world.
Right now, he’s working on getting a master’s in education, to open young minds to the diversity of the world. So, he’s a husband, a father, a reader, a wanna-be writer and teacher. He also has a love/hate relationship with eggs.
I could say more, but Gavin’s a complicated guy and it would take awhile.
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May 7, 2008 at 4:53 pm
lethebashar
I’ve glad that I found you on Novelr. Thanks for the helpful discussion about revision, posting, fiction vs. blog fiction. Very illuminating. I’m enjoying your work and will be back to read more. In the meantime, I’m putting you on my blogroll.
May 7, 2008 at 5:11 pm
nomananisland
Thanks very much, lethebashar! I hope you find it entertaining to explore my writing world. 🙂 I’m checking out your link as well.
July 12, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Team 2012
Hi
Like what you’re doing. We are starting a special subforum on an established writers website to discuss blog novels, ebooks, podcasts, and other new media not dealt with on other writer forums.
We’d like to invite you. Two ways to go: send us your address and we’ll notify you when the forum comes up (probably this coming week) or sign up at writersbeat.com and mention blog noveling in your initial post in the “introductions” subforum. Let us know you’re there (Team 2012) and we’ll give you a hand and post a link to this site.
We’re trying to build a network and buzz for this stuff. The forum will discuss things like RSS feeds and places that promote bloglit as well as discussions by writers are various levels of accomplishment in these genres…including publishers.
Best
Da Team
July 21, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Jessica Graham
Hi Gavin, I just found this site now 🙂 …Can’t wait to read your story. It was nice meeting you yesterday! You are inspiring to me and my family.
Jessica!