THE WRITER

Username: Captain Strider, Matthew Strider

Real name: Matthew Ridge

Hobbies: Writing, Modeling, Collecting

Enjoy: Sci-fi, fantasy

Biography

So you want to know about me do you? The Writer and Creator of EDS Destiny.

Well lets see where I can start then. I was born and raised in England, I have a brother and two sisters all who are younger than me.

My spare time ranges from dabbling with modding various Games including "Dawn of War", "The Movies" and "StarFleet Command 3". I also like to assemble and paint models (mainly from kits), collecting various odds an ends which includes dragon ornaments and of course Writing.

I began writing when I was about eight years of age, I recieved a video containing "Doctor Who and The War Machines" A classic Doctor Who adventure from the 1960's well it got me hooked onto Doctor Who and I suppose Science-Fiction in general. Immediately inspired I began to write fan-fiction based on the series, I also did some short stories that are all but a vague memory.

It wasn't until I was about sixteen that I really branched out from Fan-fiction and worked on my own projects, still mainly in the science-fiction genre.  I began to write books that originally were planned as singles which were developed as possible trilogies. It soon came apparent that I have too many ideas for a single thing and I ultimately turned to serial writing the likes of Star Trek. (This has already been mentioned in the History of the series but I'll cover it briefly) Starting in a Fan-fiction grounded me into the genre and space sci-fi was where I was led, but it soon became restrictive playing in someone elses world just isn't as fun as making your own and so my writing now is focused totally on creating my own universe(s) to play in.

Strider Out!