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January 20, 2020

First Steps

I started the first book of my yet to be titled science fiction series a few days before Thanksgiving last year. Yesterday, I finished reworking and self editing it and started the process to find a professional editor to look it over. I have no words for how excited I am to have gotten this far. My self confidence almost failed me at one point, but I pushed through and I am feeling good about this book. So good that I started writing book two today with hopes of completing it in a few months.





A large part of me has been so satisfied with finally giving my creative side an output that I look forward to getting home from my day job every afternoon so I can sit down at the computer and get back into the world I’m creating. On weekends, I go to bed already thinking up ideas to put down on the page the next morning. I am really hoping that the people who buy my books, or get them on Kindle Unlimited, enjoy reading them and look forward to reading the next one as much as I continually look forward to writing it.

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Published on January 20, 2020 13:07

January 12, 2020

The Journey Begins

When I was a kid, I would read book after book. There were days when my dad would be yelling at me to go outside because I had read an entire Stephen King or John Grisham novel in a single day. I was always dreaming up stories of my own, developing characters that I built on and improved through the years. I spent many days writing stories, putting my imagination on the page with varying amounts of success. But I eventually settled in to a normal job, first in banking and then moving to IT.





Writing was a dream that never went away. I wrote a book in 2009, participating in my second NANOWRIMO. I felt good about it, and sent the first couple of chapters to a few dozen agents and publishers to see if I could get a publishing deal over a period of a couple of years. Like thousands of writers before me, I got nothing but rejection letters. So many that it broke my self-confidence and I gave up for too long.





The dream grew stronger, though, and as I aged I started to realize I had to act on it or always be disappointed in myself for giving up. In November of 2019 I finally started writing again. I won’t lie and say it was easy; starting something is always hard and takes a lot of effort. The difference this time is that my self-confidence stayed strong and I enjoyed the book I was writing. I loved the characters, I loved the thought of where I plan to take those characters, and I couldn’t wait to sit down at the computer and write more the next day when I got home from work.





It is January of 2020 now, and with luck I hope to have that first book through several drafts and a professional edit by April or May. The hope is to publish in June, July at the latest. The greater hope is that anyone reading this will also read my books, and enjoy them as much as I enjoy creating them.

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Published on January 12, 2020 12:51