Right. So I've placed a short work I've been toying with on my DA account. If anyone would care to read it, or perhaps has some constructive criticism, it would be greatly appreciated. I've really had some fun writing this one. It felt so much more like I was quickly writing down a story I was being told than making one up. I'm sure that I'll alter it a bit, and give it a little polish before I submit it for publishing, but I'm giving it a bit of time to age and ferment before I take it up again and butcher it. All writing needs time to cool before rewriting.
In either case, I appreciate any help and hope you enjoy this as yet untitled work.
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27 October 2008
21 October 2008
Harken Unto Me, Oh Friends and Fiends!
Welcome all.
This is to be my first foray into the world of blogging. I have kept an online journal for years which is rarely updated and poorly organized as it is mainly random comments about my life which I feel free to post without censor or thought. These may be seen at my Deviant Art account.
This is more formal, perhaps, or at least more intended to be a professional situation. As a writer it is partly my duty to be present in and amongst the public I wish to write to. Do not feel, oh esteemed reader, that I am forced to be here. I greatly enjoy the public and all its peoples, though some are grating while others fair. I will undoubtedly not sound this formal as we continue, but I suppose I wanted to set the write tone. (Terrible pun, I realize.)
Friends, for all my formality, I am following my hero in the hopes of achieving what he has, and what so few have. In his book Angels & Visitations my hero, Neil Gaiman, says, "indeed, it sometimes occurs to me that when I began I had little talent, merely the conviction that I was a writer, and enough arrogance and hubris to persist." I am in this stage of my own career.
I will post what I can here, be it writing, or links to something important or perhaps more unimportant, but entertaining, or nothing at all of value save updates concerning myself as a writer, from publishing, one can only hope, to signings, and other such vestiges of professionalism.
Thank you all for visiting and I pray you enjoy yourselves.
This is to be my first foray into the world of blogging. I have kept an online journal for years which is rarely updated and poorly organized as it is mainly random comments about my life which I feel free to post without censor or thought. These may be seen at my Deviant Art account.
This is more formal, perhaps, or at least more intended to be a professional situation. As a writer it is partly my duty to be present in and amongst the public I wish to write to. Do not feel, oh esteemed reader, that I am forced to be here. I greatly enjoy the public and all its peoples, though some are grating while others fair. I will undoubtedly not sound this formal as we continue, but I suppose I wanted to set the write tone. (Terrible pun, I realize.)
Friends, for all my formality, I am following my hero in the hopes of achieving what he has, and what so few have. In his book Angels & Visitations my hero, Neil Gaiman, says, "indeed, it sometimes occurs to me that when I began I had little talent, merely the conviction that I was a writer, and enough arrogance and hubris to persist." I am in this stage of my own career.
I will post what I can here, be it writing, or links to something important or perhaps more unimportant, but entertaining, or nothing at all of value save updates concerning myself as a writer, from publishing, one can only hope, to signings, and other such vestiges of professionalism.
Thank you all for visiting and I pray you enjoy yourselves.
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