Sharing My Love of the Written Word for the Holidays

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I have always been a fan of the written word.

I started reading at a young age, and when my family began to get shaken up, I think I probably escaped into books a lot.

Writing has always come easily to me.  Genre, topic, doesn’t entirely matter to me.  When I get to put words to the page or screen, I find that I am in my element.

For a time, I avoided embracing calling myself a writer.  The written word never lost its importance to me, but I found myself spending far less time honing my craft.

Then, something changed.  In the late 1990’s, an idea popped into my head, and my series The Source Chronicles came to life.

For a short time I managed to land an agent, but Fantasy was not his familiar genre.  So we didn’t really go anywhere.

Then my friend suggested I have a real editor go over my first completed fantasy novel, then titled Seeker of The Source.  She not only helped me turn my novel into a much more coherent, solidly voiced story – she also made me a far better writer and editor.  Her instruction helped me to make some fundamental changes in my approach, and with that a far better writer.

I was fortunate that a friend was editing an anthology of short stories about pirates and magic.  I seized upon this awesome opportunity, and wrote A Treacherous Stone, which was published in Rum and Runestones.  When the second anthology, Spells and Swashbuckers was being assembled, I created The Vapor Rogues.

Times and technology have changed, and while I continued seeking an agent or publisher, I decided it was time to strike out on my own.  I stated by taking the first year of my main blog post, and published Pathwalking: A 21st Century Philosophy.

I have continued to blog three times a week at The Ramblings of The Titanium Don.  Not long ago I refocused my posts to all address the ideology that consciousness creates reality.  Mondays I present Positivity, Wednesdays I write Pathwalking, and Friday Crossing the Bridges.

Once I had dipped my toe into the waters of self-publishing, I decided to share with the world Seeker – The Source Chronicles Book I.  A year later, after having it edited, I shared Finder – The Source Chronicles Book II.

When I wrote The Vapor Rogues for Spells and Swashbucklers, I did a huge amount of worldbuilding.  This was not just Steampunk from an alternate Victorian reality, but a wholly unique world I created.  With all that worldbuilding, I needed to write more.  From that came Clouds of Authority : A Vapor Rogues Novel.

On several occasions, I have participated in National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo.  This is where you are challenged to write 50,000 words in 30 days every November.  I have succeeded several times with this.  One year it was my fantasy/Steampunk Infamy Ascending, another year my technothriller Shades of Mediocrity.

Two of the stories I wrote for NaNoWriMo I have published.  First, my homage to Paulo Coelho, Vortex Pilgrimage, an embellishment of my hikes around Sedona, AZ.  And then a deeply personal story, a humorous narrative of the time in my life when I was recovering from being struck by a car while crossing a street.  The Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Trip to the Post Office is all stuff that happened to me, but all the names have been changed.

The written word is my passion, my heart and soul.  I am working on my blog every week, and new stories to share with the world.  With the holidays being upon us, is there a better gift than the written word to share with friends and loved ones?

I hope you enjoy what I present here to you.  Thank you for your support!

 

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