Hello friends, thank you for following this story. I am excited to get to writing it. First, I would love your help on another project that I need to get off my desktop first. I am publishing an anthology of short stories, poetry and opinion articles that I need your help to fund. The title is POETRYSEXLIFE and you can find the project under my profile. Thank you for your support, it literally means everything to me.
Hello fellow reader. First thank you for supporting a full time dad with a career in technology who was foolish enough to believe that time would be easy to make to finally write the novel he's been writing in his head for a long time now. When I graduated from the Bowling Green Creative Writing Program here in Ohio fifteen years ago, it was all supposed to be about poetry and fiction. Then I did a real dumb thing and fell in love. Nothing kills a writing career faster than happiness is something I would have wrote in my jaded youth. In truth, it just means you've put a lot of obstacles between you and having the time to write and be creative. The funny thing is that the experiences you gain moving through those obstacles should become the inspiration for what you will write about once you get to that office with the closed door that Stephen King talks about in his memoir On Writing.
And then there's the whole reading thing. I'm sitting here with a signed Sherman Alexie book of short stories on my desk staring back at me from the last twenty pages. And there is a first print edition of Don Delillo's Great Jones Street, tattered from its use before me, that I picked up at the book sell back store. They both stare.
So in Chapter 3 I introduce the bad guy, Michael Matuso. He's not totally bad though. I am confident that his story will be tragic, understandable and totally unforgivable. When I think of Walter White in Breaking Bad, I see the greatest anti-hero in the history of literature not just television. That characters set a new bar for writers to aspire towards with their antagonists and I believe that I am up to the challenge on this one.
Thanks for sticking with me and for considering my book for your personal library.
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.
Been working on non-fiction lately - a wedding ceremony that is one of the best things I've ever written. Writing about love has no allegiance to genre, style or category. Whether it's a scientific paper, a love letter or a constitution of government, if it doesn't have love at the center then it's got no heart.
Hello friends, thank you for following this story. I am excited to get to writing it. First, I would love your help on another project that I need to get off my desktop first. I am publishing an anthology of short stories, poetry and opinion articles that I need your help to fund. The title is POETRYSEXLIFE and you can find the project under my profile. Thank you for your support, it literally means everything to me.
Hello fellow reader. First thank you for supporting a full time dad with a career in technology who was foolish enough to believe that time would be easy to make to finally write the novel he's been writing in his head for a long time now. When I graduated from the Bowling Green Creative Writing Program here in Ohio fifteen years ago, it was all supposed to be about poetry and fiction. Then I did a real dumb thing and fell in love. Nothing kills a writing career faster than happiness is something I would have wrote in my jaded youth. In truth, it just means you've put a lot of obstacles between you and having the time to write and be creative. The funny thing is that the experiences you gain moving through those obstacles should become the inspiration for what you will write about once you get to that office with the closed door that Stephen King talks about in his memoir On Writing.
And then there's the whole reading thing. I'm sitting here with a signed Sherman Alexie book of short stories on my desk staring back at me from the last twenty pages. And there is a first print edition of Don Delillo's Great Jones Street, tattered from its use before me, that I picked up at the book sell back store. They both stare.
Thanks for taking this journey with me.
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.
Been working on non-fiction lately - a wedding ceremony that is one of the best things I've ever written. Writing about love has no allegiance to genre, style or category. Whether it's a scientific paper, a love letter or a constitution of government, if it doesn't have love at the center then it's got no heart.
All, thank you for the support with my novel Great Awakening! I just posted another chapter and appreciate your feedback and support!
https://www.inkshares.com/projects/great-awakening