The Daily Journal of An Aspiring Writer

       Today was a very productive day for me.  I got this blog started. I also created and author Facebook page. After that though I wrote a story that I believe needed to be written.  It is likely that it will never be published because it was mainly, for me, a kind of therapy to get somethings out of my system.  Over the last several weeks, I have sat down and tried to write a story that I have been developing in my head as I walked. However, every time I did, memories from my childhood would begin to crop into the story line and they really didn't belong in that character's story because they were my story. So I decided to sit down and pour it all out. It took about two hours to get it all out and in the end it was only about two thousand words.  I know that's not a long story and it didn't need to be.  I believe not that it's written. My new story is ready to be written.  Tomorrow we will see what I can do.     Oh yeah. On...

       I know.  Many of us want to become a writer, a novelist, or a famous author and make tons of money, like Stephen King, James Patterson, Robert Jordan, Brad Meltzer and Jack Whyte, just to name a few. However,  I am 52 years old and I realize for every Stephen King or Brad Meltzer out there, there are thousands of writers struggling to get published, noticed, or even put food on the table.      Thanks to Stephen King's book, On Writing, and my own personal experiences writing. I know that it isn't easy.  It's something that takes a lot of time and work. I have done some writing over the years, including keeping a diary or journal.  Much of my more recent writing has been short articles for Masonic Lodge Education and some for Masonic blog publications.      It's not something that has been easy but honestly, since I was about 9 years old, I have loved to tell stories. Sometimes I even told stories ...