First Steps

So here is my attempt at a blog. Something meaningful and professional. Full of insightful wisdom and kind words...

I have no idea what I'm doing.

This has been the prevailing feeling of my writing journey. I don't have a background in writing or any special education in it. Heck in high school I didn't pay attention to most subjects because they bored me so I've had to re-learn a lot of the details and rules of writing.

I've been around writers and gone to seminars and I just feel entirely out of place. By day I work with my hands as a tradesman. And while figuring out issues is a mental exercise, there is a reason we aren't putting Plumbers in charge of NASA.

But despite feeling out of place, not knowing or understanding what I'm doing or trying to do. I keep writing. I'm not the smartest, or most creative, or talented person. But I have a story. A story that has eaten away at me for over a decade and after I finally ran out of excuses why I shouldn't write the thing down. I started.

January of 2017. I planned to write a chapter a month. Usually about 3-4 thousand words. But as I kept writing and forming the details of the story it became easier. I saw part of the long path before me and it made me sick how steep the climb was. My goal seemed hidden beyond the mist and clouds. But I put my head back down and focused on writing. Word by word it all came together, and before I knew it. I was on a plateau. I was asking for beta readers to look over what I' done.

With their help I was able to re-work part of my story and climb onto the next section. To keep writing and building my world and the story in it. Now I sit on the next plateau waiting on more Beta readers but I look back at the path I've climbed and its amazing. I've done so much. But I've also done so little in comparison to the professionals I admire. The people I almost dare to dream about rubbing shoulders with and shaking their hands one day. But for now the idea feels so lavish and extravagant, that I even scold myself for thinking of it.

So there you have it. That is my start and where I sit right now. Working on the last part of my first book. Fractured Pages and the outline for my second one. I hope things go smoothly but I am prepared for the opposite.

Thanks for reading. Stay Safe out there.