Peter Kingsmill
Now that I have started to concentrate on writing novels, the day-by-day inspiration to sit down at the keyboard and "just do it" comes easily. But, there has been a long road between my parents and teachers and even a professor telling me "you should be a writer" and actually becoming a fiction writer. My first job offer after high school was to write operation and maintenance manuals for railway locomotives, a job I probably shouldn't have turned down - but did! A second offer was from a small community weekly newspaper, which I did accept and shortly became editor (all eight pages of it, twelve on a good week!)
After a year or so of that, a year of college got in the way. It was almost two decades later that I spent a few years as a full-time singer/songwriter, and became convinced that writing country songs was a perfect fit for my attention span: two verses, one chorus, repeat... and done!
Later, I took on some good editing gigs for business and professional magazines and even (with a lot of encouragement and help from my spouse) started a relatively successful community weekly newspaper of our own.
Of course I have been doing a number of things over the years to earn a living, including farm worker, logger, trucker and riverboat captain, but it took until just over a year ago to arrive at the conclusion that I actually wanted to do what I probably should have done many many years before: write my first novel. And, here it is: Sunset at 20:47 !
After a year or so of that, a year of college got in the way. It was almost two decades later that I spent a few years as a full-time singer/songwriter, and became convinced that writing country songs was a perfect fit for my attention span: two verses, one chorus, repeat... and done!
Later, I took on some good editing gigs for business and professional magazines and even (with a lot of encouragement and help from my spouse) started a relatively successful community weekly newspaper of our own.
Of course I have been doing a number of things over the years to earn a living, including farm worker, logger, trucker and riverboat captain, but it took until just over a year ago to arrive at the conclusion that I actually wanted to do what I probably should have done many many years before: write my first novel. And, here it is: Sunset at 20:47 !
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