First Post: Where to Begin

I guess I should begin from the beginning, right? As we all do…

In a nutshell save all the gory details: I started writing in high school. Friends loved it. Family rarely if ever saw it. (But that’s okay. For some skewed teenage narration by a reclusive, outcast mongrel is probably not what parents truly want to hear.)

Then the real world stepped in. Took the forefront of my attention. Marriage, kids, home, picket fence. Yeah, it’s all good. And I truly thank the high heavens for every day I’m privileged to receive.

But things have a way of making full circle. And it did. One day a computer. Next day, the itch. You know the one. The one where those living characters within the gray goo say, “Oh, here I am. Remember me? Good. Now let’s get to business.”

Ah, so … now we have something. The words came like water from a trough. Fluid and mesmerizing. Almost one hundred thousand words of pure unedited manuscript. And a dream. A dream to see it in print. To believe that if people read it they’d go, “Yeah, it’s all good.”

And in my ignorance came much bliss (for only ninety-nine bucks upfront). Not bad to see those living words in print I must say. But with this bliss also came a rude awakening and much deserved education.

Which is why I started doing what I do. To save you the trouble. To in some small way be able to help others on the path I struggled to learn.

Writing is a business and a hard one at that (which was Lesson Number One for me). Yes, there are rewards, but in truth only those who do it with a dedication to the craft will survive. The rest, well, I feel for them. Deeply.

So, it’s with this small rambling that I want to welcome to my new blog, The Backroom, as I say. A little place off the beaten path where I hope to provide a resource to aid both new and established writers who want to use the technology to create or build their future. Or maybe to just relive their past.

I guess we’ll just have to see.