Aug 30, 2015

Thank you again for reading and considering my work in your library. It's been a pretty wild past few weeks as I've eased into the Inkshares community. I work in Tech so communicating digitally has become a reflex at this point and when I understood the potential for what this community and this service can do, I became re-energized about writing again. 

 I graduated with a BFA in Creative Writing from a fantastic program here in Ohio the year that George Bush Jr. was elected. The world has morphed into another thing entirely than what it was in those days, in every way possible. And the format of distribution of the written word had almost soured me on the act of writing fiction. Back in school, when it was just the writer and the page, things seemed so simple. The distribution model was who we shook hands with and waved at. Then the internet threw up everywhere and we still have to beg others to read what we write in a world that values image more than ever and false images most of all. I had no desire to produce false images so I focused my creativity into my career and fatherhood. 

But I think there may be a way with Inkshares to balance those priorities and allocate resources to more effective uses and still get the damn books written. After all, as Steve Jobs was fond of saying, "It has to ship." 

JM 

Also, I uploaded a new chapter to "Great Awakening" so please check it out if you find yourself with a spare 8 minutes. It's a quick chapter but Roison wakes up from what appears to be a coma. The last time we saw him, he was chasing a scream in the forest with a man he had only shook hands with first moments before. Something bad happened and we're there with Roison when he starts to figure out what's going on. Cool stuff. I can't wait to see where this story takes me as I write it. I know where it's going but how it gets there is still a mystery. Good stuff.