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First day as 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. One other thing this blog will most likely also contain some entries that are because of what I call my writers research.  What I am talking about is I may include reviews of  the books I've recently read.  Not the kind that tells you how good or bad the book is. Or how this book qualifies for literature or not.  No what it will more or less be is what did I learn from the writer of this story that can help me in my writing.  Oh and it will be whether or not I liked the story or not but I won't break it down for you and put out spoilers.  Spoiler alert some of the books have on my current reading list are not necessarily new or even written in the 20th or 21st Centuries. So if there are spoilers for you, tough. If you already style yourself a writer, then get off your ass and read some the classics that I myself am about to read because I didn't push myself to do so earlier and I know I will enjoy some of these stories already. 

Okay, I'll be fair and throw out some author's names.

H.G. Wells
Bram Stoker
Mary Shelley
Jules Verne
Mark Twain
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Oscar Wilde
Edgar Allen Poe
H.P. Lovecraft

Of course I will continue to read:
Michael Moorcock
Stephen King
Fred Saberhagen
Brad Meltzer

and few others along the way.


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