Slow steps in the right direction
Encouragingly my sales continued, like I always say to people who ask, it’s not in the realms of the millions but there is a steady incline. Every few days I log on and check and see someone else has dared to enter my world. Someone else has taken that leap and veered from the mainstream to the Indie and tried something new.
The fact people continue to do this is encouraging and fills me with hope that somewhere along the line world will pas from one person to another and there will always be just a little interest in what I have to offer.
In my mind I would love to think that from the everyday person someone out there may look at a copy and see some potential but that is a dream of a distant future far from now. I didn’t write this story for that, I wrote it because I enjoyed doing it. The fact I want to carry the story on also means there’s legs in this venture!
Some of those that have read Footprints have commented how detailed my descriptions are, how the scenes are presented to you in quite a lot of detail. That is not by accident. Some authors may frown upon that, preferring to give readers the ability to create their version of the world. However, for me, I want you to see what I see, feel what I feel and experience it the way I saw it in my head.
The way I write is extremely visual. Anything I write I have acted out and played out a thousand times in my head until it becomes like a film I’ve watched with obsession time and again. Somewhat like a young child with a favourite film where they sit there mouthing the words. For me my world has existed so viscerally in my head over the time I took me to write this that I want everyone else to see it exactly how I did. There’s nothing more I want to do than share my experience but also know we are seeing the same thing at the same time.
Like I say it may be frowned upon by some but for me that is my style, that is the way I write. Indeed, as working nights these last two days and back on again tonight I remember that writing is not my full-time job. I fit it around my life and in that same vein I am not only Indie but I am self-trained. Yes I may not fit the conventions of creative writings or the methods and structures they would teach on a course but that’s what makes me different.
When I come up with stories or ideas for events within a story they often, if not always, start with something real. As I’ve probably laboured enough the whole of Dinymour was set against the old brewery in my home town. At the moment I love the atmosphere of my night shifts. In them I can really allow my creativity to flourish and come up with ways and events of stories rolling around in my mind. I am blessed in my job that I get to see things and go places that inspire me, less the situations I come across, more the places, sights and sounds but I really am just a sponge and it takes something very small to tickle my imagination.
I don’t write to rules (well obviously I do with sentences etc) but I write how I feel is right and hopefully you all enjoy it. I have my rules, my little things I do in life but really when I write I just do what feels right. I suppose in that way I write instinctively, both as a reader but also as the one telling the story. I know I enjoyed my story so by giving it you the way I do I know that if you don’t like it then it is because what I offer you isn’t to your liking. If that is the case still my thanks for trying, I will only ever grow from feedback and that comes from sales at the moment and the occasional review.
So please continue to spread the word, leave some reviews and hopefully this defiant creative little creature that I am may make a little impact in this literary world.
