In 2017, I was randomly put into an Instagram group message of 19 other people also named Steven Harrison.
I thought that was really funny. I’d always said my name was only rivaled in unoriginal white-guy prevalence by “John Smith,” so this was just fuel for some self-effacing humor.
Jokes aside, it helped me realize that, in everything I did, I wanted to be different.
But “different” writers are a dime a dozen. There’s even writer Steven Harrisons out there. One wrote a book called Doing Nothing, and he seems kind of like Ricken from Severance. How could I possibly compete with that?
When I write some copy to sell you something, a world to immerse you somewhere, or an anecdote to make you exhale through your nose in acknowledged humor, I always use honesty, beauty, and cleverness. I think those can make any voice worth listening to. And I know it takes experience to know when to pluck which string.
To get less weird and metaphorical, I have that experience.
For the past couple years, I’ve led copywriting for Many Worlds Tavern. Before, I was the H.E.B. Foundation’s first in-house staff writer (as a follow-up of my communications internship with them). Before that, I had the privilege of running the best specialty coffee shop in Corpus Christi through the pandemic.
I studied English Literature at Texas A&M University, where I was chosen to represent the university at the National Undergraduate Literature Conference in 2017.
Less “professionally,” I spend my free time being a huge nerd and petting my small cat. I love games, and dedicate way more time than is reasonable to writing for my ongoing Dungeons & Dragons campaign. I’m also slowly reading through Sanderson’s Mistborn series and constantly wondering how Fortiche Production made something as beautiful as Arcane.
As for the other Steven Harrisons, we keep up occasionally. One just returned from a lovely vacation in Thailand.
Steven Blake Harrison 