Leo Sopicki
Writer in Wimberley, Texas
I've always been telling stories. First, to the girl next door, Susan Adams. Where are you, Susan?
To readers of the high school paper and the literary journal where I embarrassed Frances O'Conner with a poem. Where are you, Frances?
To anyone who would listen at UCLA. Major: history and demonstrations. I wrote newsletters, hung posters and flirted with movie making. Her name: Debbie Love. Where are you, Debbie?
To audiences as an Army PSYOP officer - an Army story teller. Parlayed this into a blur of political, PIO, speech writer, and marketing jobs, a wife, and a daughter. Where are you Margaret and Leia. (At home, I think.)
To users as a computer programmer, a kind of story teller, too. I wrote code and documentation and newsletters. Where are you, twenty years?
But, those computer years are over and it's time to focus on telling stories again. Wherever you are Susan, Francis, Debbie, Margaret and Leia, you'll probably end up in one of my screenplays.