On Writing (sort of...)

I should start with a mild warning - Don't expect anything earthshattering or insightful from this. Sorry about that.

Anyway, I released a brand new short story into the wild today. It's out there on its own now, free and able to be read by just about anyone in the world with access to an internet connection. Now that's rather cool in and of itself right?

Of course it is.

But the best part about it was that I rolled right off the back of writing a story about obsession and murder and jumped headlong into one that's set in the world of RPGs. Of course there's a nifty bit of a twist, which is one of the thigns I love about writing. The story can twist and turn, it can shock and amaze, it can entertain and hopefully leave you wanting more.

That's probably the best feeling in the world for a writer; knowing that someone enjoyed your story and wanted more. It's like having a fine meal and asking for seconds or going to see a cool movie again and again.

Some people find writing easy and they can churn out the words day in day out. I love it when that happens, but it doesn't happen that often for me. I have to work at it. I put down two and a half thousand words in the space of around ten hours over the weekend. That's a little over two hundred words an hour, and what's two hundred words? Barely two paragraphs.

So yeah, I can be kinda slow at times but the end result was a story I was happy with. The speed didn't matter, just what I had at the finish. In the end I'm writing because I enjoy telling stories and I love the fact that people are reading my work and enjoying it.