William Hoffacker

I am a creative writing major at Susquehanna University, and I live in Queens, NY.

A biography, huh? Alright. On January 18th, 1990, a boy who would be known as “William” (or “Will” for short) was born, and the majority of the world didn’t seem to notice. Young Will noticed their not noticing, and he was soon determined to put a stop to that. At first it started out pretty simple: crying and making clever gurgling noises to get attention, and it worked among a small group of individuals (who are classified as “family”), but he knew that small stuff with spit bubbles just wouldn’t cut it worldwide. So, as he developed the ability to speak, he tried to be funny. He wasn’t very good at it for a while—a long while. Some have suspected that keeping his grades up was part of the effort to gain universal recognition, but really that didn’t really take much effort in grade school. As I was saying, as Will grew, so did his sense of humor, and over time he became recognized among friends as a pretty fun guy to be around (most of the time, anyway). But, of course, Will strove for more. He wanted to be globally recognized as a fun, thoughtful guy, but he didn’t really know how to get in touch with the masses, so instead he watched lots of television. It was while he was watching a cable tech program called “Call for Help,” at the age of thirteen, that he learned about the concept of blogging. “If anything is going to get me to the top for little to no money and effort,” he declared, “it is a blog, gosh darn it!” He soon joined “Blogger” and enlisted their services to create a weblog entitled “Youngest of One” (at the domain of http://youngofone.blogspot.com), after much deliberation on picking a name, which was time well wasted, considering that this is the one he landed on. It was a partnership that wouldn’t last, however. After a few months and approximately one hundred entries, Will stopped updating his blog in favor of a new “Youngest of One,” created under the regime of TypePad (at the domain of http://youngestofone.typepad.com). To this day, he still writes for this second weblog. Sometimes. He has amassed a variety of readers, all of whom he is quite thankful for, and he is therefore well on his way to his goal of worldwide recognition. In fact, in April 2005, he was even interviewed by Vikk Simmons (http://thewriterspath.com). (Okay, so most of that story is true. What isn’t true that the point about getting into this for recognition. Really it’s always been about becoming a more skilled writer. Well, that, and the chicks.)