When I thought of the title for this entry, I have to admit I cringed a bit. It seems very cheesy and contrived, that, along with simplistic, corny, low brow and somewhat tawdry. Well you get them point. And besides I have preached that message several time before in my posts. But one of the other things I have been a proponent of it coming straight to the point and not smothering a message with unnecessary verbiage.
Kind of like I just did I the last sentence.
In the near future I am going to take my posts and make a few basis renovations, and add some thoughts, change the illustrations and pass it off as my new book.
Of course it will be fresh, but based on my own past observations.
The idea will be to make this a book for people that are unsure of their ability to write, or go through the process of getting their work published.
Now who am I to write such a book. I did not even take language in University. I took Poli Sci if you must know. That does qualify me to offer a course in bullshitting your way through exams, but not to teach writing.
Ah, but there's the difference. I am not even pretending to teach writing. I am instead hoping to guide potential writers through my own experiences in the hope it might get the fence sitters off the fence and behind their laptops, tablets, or even old school writing pads.
My credentials then are simply, experience and I think a knack of putting a good yarn together. The satisfaction of finishing something, whether it be short story, novel, or non fiction and realizing it's really quite good, cannot be measured.
If you fancy being a writer I don't want that to go unexperienced, and yes i do mean "un" and not "in"
Every idea you have is worth considering. When I have an idea, but no idea what to do with it, I write it on a sticky and put it in a plastic case with the title "BIG IDEAS". There are no small ideas in writing.
Once in awhile I fish around in there and find some hidden gold. A story I can run with.
When I have one of those "Eureka" ideas, as i mentioned in a previous post, I immediately write it down and then everything else that comes to me about it, and i just get started.
That way nothing is wasted.
These are all notions I have touched upon before. But they bare repeating just to emphasize the point. No matter where you end up with your writing, you won't accomplish anything unless you start.
Cliche maybe, but that doesn't make it not true.
So don't think of reasons for not writing, if you want to write, then just get started.
Now my title doesn't seem so lame after all, does it?
