I want to talk about the wall I hit and couldn’t write past the other day. It was a key turning point and I learned a lot in the aftermath.
But first, this being a new blog, I’d like to answer this question:
Why did you decide to start writing fiction now, and what makes you believe you can do it?
Once upon a time, I was a freelance writer for computer magazines. On the side from my real job, I wrote programming articles, product reviews, that level of stuff. I liked the work so much that I quit my job to do it full time, still purely freelance.
When I got to up to 90 published articles, and the nonfiction book I had lead-authored was published, I decided it was time to start thinking about moving over to fiction. A few years earlier, I had sent a few short stories to magazines and received encouragingly-worded rejections, but I had taken on adult responsibilities and had to put the stories aside for a few years. Now I would dust them off.
And so, Our Hero was making preparations to move into a solitary, Unabomber-style shack in an isolated area (just about exactly where, many years later, the Twilight series would be set, coincidentally). I would monk up and focus on fiction. I was really going to do it.
Then, Something Happened….
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