Just jotting down somethings on one of my most favorite subjects in the world. Writing. Gosh if I could have gone back to senior year in high school and told myself to shape up and just got to college for English become a college prof and write, I totally would. Not that I hate my current major or my future career goals in anyway. But it's just writing brings out the artist inside of me. Kind of like how singing does. At the current moment with the finishing of my most recent manuscript for a short narrative that plugs between the 3rd and 4th books of The "Guardian" book series I'm working on 2 books. I'm working on the final book of the Series, Guardian (Project Argos) and a book I've been working on since November of a completely different story-line named "Bounty of Zion". I get asked "how do you keep up with all that, don't you ever forget where you're at?" Simply put... No, because each book is prewritten give or take a few adjustments. But each book is carefully thought out and written in my head, and over time it is extracted. It's one of the beauties of writing.
It's like you oversee this world. Essentially playing god for your characters, deciding where they go how they'll act, and what they'll do. I've been writing since grade 9. Actually to the suggestion of my father, not that he probably remembers. But he knew I loved to write, I knew I needed to work on my typing for my keyboarding class, and one day I was saying how I had read all the books in the house, and he told me "maybe you should write your own." I took it to heart and decided to write my first book, "The Calling." I still have that book, looking back on that book and it's sequel I'm both amazed and horrified. Amazed that I was able to pull that off at 14, and horrified at my writing style. But what can you expect from a 14 year old. I did complete a 100 page book nonetheless. Which at the time seemed forever. The second one however ended up being about 250.
I kept writing and writing and writing, until senior year when our family computer crashed along with it 30 manuscripts. I gave up on writing, until we got a "newer" computer. I wrote three manuscripts on that full length and finished and then lost those when it crashed. Well about my 3rd year in college, 2-3 years after the most recent crash I decided to pick up writing again. Gaining inspiration in the winter of 2010-2011, I came up with the idea for ""Guardian". Don't worry over time I'll go into detail about what Guardian actually is. But I decided to write and write and write. I then learned I could self publish my books as E-books and then I decided this was the sign from God that the time to get serious was afoot. With the completion of The Guardian series, and the rewrite of the first book, and the finishing of "Bounty of Zion" I will go into publisher/promoter beast mode. My goal is to sell my first book by thanksgiving and I will. No options, just do it.
The Artist-
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