Bio/ Update trial #1

Hi! I'm Edward (Justned, mostly) McInnis.1

I was born in Bar Harbor, Maine in 19622

Raised on the edge of Acadia National Park. What an amazeing play ground to have in one's own back yard. This is where my adventure's began. Rattle Snake was to be my first given nic name. As for an early discovery that if one is to put rocks down into yards of stink pipes something must give. Low and behold! This writer started out stinking the homestead out. 3

I've been writing since my early teen years after having moved out of my parents home at the ripe ol'age of 15. 4

Starting out living in a mansion off the east coast and eating "Hot" lobster. Nice way to start out being a homeless kid huh!? 5

My travels through the earlier years of growth were not seen by me as worthy to be written about. It was between the pages of westerns, science fiction and various magazines from where my imagination was led. On the back of Louis La'moure paperbacks6

rereading Mr. La'moure's bio the life I wished to lead. Real life Adventure. My first real lead how to become a writer. "Live"7

Arrived in my life came the girls of poetry. Summer of 1976 I was given a personal gift of a hand written poem. The first poem I ever really dug. The second was a book in 1981 written by Rod McKuen the only poet at that time I could stand to read and enjoy. Then the simple messege from my high school creative writing teacher.8

"Take it on the road" 9

Setting aside the pen I did just that. On the road, on the seas10

on whatever ride there was for me. Collecting life's adventures great and small all the while inside my head writing titles and idea's. Dabbling the written word mostly for myself. Now here I am ready to spill it for you and the world. "Ink"11

Thank-you12

Please enjoy yourself it only comes around once all depending on how we ride it. "JustNed"13