I’m glad you found my blog. This is my first posting, where I set the tone for what this blog will contain. This is a blog about writing, and about the journey to publish. The focus is on fiction novel writing, but there will be content and advice here that is helpful to all writers.
How about a little history to get us started? I began this journey back in 2003. At the time I was a full-time computer programmer, and I had never written anything unless school or work required it of me. But one day I got the idea for a story, and without having any idea what I was doing I set down to record what was playing in my head.
Little did I know what was in store for me. There are rules for writing. There are more rules for writing well. And then there are lots more rules for getting published. I was ignorant of all these rules, so I just wrote what came to mind, and the interesting thing is that the more I wrote, the more I found in my head that needed to be written.
Only after having made significant headway into completing my story did I began to see what it would take to get published. That’s when I ran into the rules, and that’s when I begin rewriting and reformatting my work. If you’re a beginning writer, a big part of the information on my website will be to help you learn the rules up front so you won’t experience quite the heartache that I did.
Blog posts are supposed to be kept short. So, I’ll end my first entry here. Tune in for my next post to see what happened when I learned about a $50,000 first-novel contest, and how my story came to the attention of a famous author.