My journey as an writer has been something however typical. Not like the overwhelming majority of printed authors, the primary time I picked up a pencil and paper at age 5, I did NOT suppose “Gee, I’m going to be an writer after I develop up!” Having efficiently printed my first novel at age 73, I now even surprise the way it all occurred.
Over the previous few years, I wound down my half-century profession as a analysis scientist and engineer. And a few years earlier than that, I put apart my side-gig as an award-winning wonderful artwork photographer. About that point, I started assembly with a neighborhood writers’ critique group, presumably for tuning up my artistic writing abilities in help of the few blogs I wrote on the time. These within the group both had, or had been about to publish books: some had been novels, others memoirs. I had little interest in pursuing both. However the group was a knowledgable and beneficiant bunch, so I realized a lot.
On the conclusion of considered one of our conferences, I requested a member what his course of and journey was like, on the way in which to producing his novel. His frank (and scary) reply was enough to inform myself: “I’ve completely NO curiosity in ever writing a novel!”
However studying one other member’s emotional, dramatic poem grabbed my consideration. And upon her stay efficiency of the work, the poem additional gripped my coronary heart and wouldn’t let go. Each morning at 3am I’d awaken to scenes from the poem working by means of my thoughts like a film reel. The one approach I might rid myself of the visions was to write down them down. Whereas nonetheless holding down my 40-hour every week analysis place, in six months I’d written a 120,000 phrase novel.
Whereas that preliminary work stays unpublished, I’ve since written and printed one other historic fiction novel, The Stone Cutter. And I’m now writing the second e-book of what guarantees to be a seven novel collection, referred to as Waters Within the Desert.
Generally we go in search of journey. At different instances, the journey finds us.
Written by Brock Meier