Writing Life and Being Grateful to be an indie author
I have been writing and imagining stories almost as long as I can remember. Modern indie publishing has been instrumental in giving a voice to aspiring writers like me. And for that I will always be grateful.
But here's a new writing experience for me...blogging. Never done this before, so I am just looking at this as another creative opportunity to do the thing I have loved since I could form a rational sentence. (Okay, maybe some of those early sentences weren't all that rational, but I'm going to give myself the benefit of the doubt).
Enter Sarah Vinson and "Immunity"...
I had first written Sarah's story several years ago. Over the years, when I had a fresh inspiration and aspiration to bring it closer to publication, I would give it a fresh re-write, updating, improving, making it scarier. Then it would sit again, unrealized, unread, and that left me unfulfilled as a writer and my creative aspirations.
Then a co-worker (whose code-name shall henceforth be "the homie") introduced me to GR and indie authors. I read it. At first I thought it was a bit rough. It was one of the earlier indie authors and books. It had a pretty substantial number of grammatical errors and I didn't have a kindle so I paid the hefty price to get a print on demand copy. But right away I saw two things. One, that the writer had a great imagination and that with the advent of indie publishing, he could get it out there. Two, I realized, maybe, just maybe, I could finally get my own work out there. So then I took up Immunity again. And as you will see from my next blog post, Immunity became the springboard for the "Horrific Northwest" literary mutliverse I intend to create.
So a lot of late nights, patience, hard work and support of my loving wife, the homie and some GR friends (like Marie and Angel), I was FINALLY able to bring Immunity to life. Oh and coffee and alcohol played in there too.
Immunity is a story (now eerily timely) about a young woman with a perfect immune system who was also capable of psionically transmitting diseases to people.
But just as I am always grateful to be able to have writing as a creative outlet, I will be even more grateful to be able to see my stories in print thanks to indie publishing.
But here's a new writing experience for me...blogging. Never done this before, so I am just looking at this as another creative opportunity to do the thing I have loved since I could form a rational sentence. (Okay, maybe some of those early sentences weren't all that rational, but I'm going to give myself the benefit of the doubt).
Enter Sarah Vinson and "Immunity"...
I had first written Sarah's story several years ago. Over the years, when I had a fresh inspiration and aspiration to bring it closer to publication, I would give it a fresh re-write, updating, improving, making it scarier. Then it would sit again, unrealized, unread, and that left me unfulfilled as a writer and my creative aspirations.
Then a co-worker (whose code-name shall henceforth be "the homie") introduced me to GR and indie authors. I read it. At first I thought it was a bit rough. It was one of the earlier indie authors and books. It had a pretty substantial number of grammatical errors and I didn't have a kindle so I paid the hefty price to get a print on demand copy. But right away I saw two things. One, that the writer had a great imagination and that with the advent of indie publishing, he could get it out there. Two, I realized, maybe, just maybe, I could finally get my own work out there. So then I took up Immunity again. And as you will see from my next blog post, Immunity became the springboard for the "Horrific Northwest" literary mutliverse I intend to create.
So a lot of late nights, patience, hard work and support of my loving wife, the homie and some GR friends (like Marie and Angel), I was FINALLY able to bring Immunity to life. Oh and coffee and alcohol played in there too.
Immunity is a story (now eerily timely) about a young woman with a perfect immune system who was also capable of psionically transmitting diseases to people.
But just as I am always grateful to be able to have writing as a creative outlet, I will be even more grateful to be able to see my stories in print thanks to indie publishing.
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