After
successfully completing a University
of West Scotland summer course in Creative Writing, spending two
years of my life writing my first novel; yes two years. During which time I was also attending a writers
group in my local town of Dumfries, immersing myself into the world of
being a writer.
I had
some burning questions in my own mind that needed to be answered;
- Where do I go from here?
- Should I try to get interest from a publisher for my novel or my RPG works?
- In reality do I have a chance of getting my work published?
- Is it actually any good?
- Where on earth did those two years go?
I will
say now; I am not new to writing, for the past 20 years I have developed and
ran RPG (Role-Playing Game) adventures for my friends using Dungeons and Dragons,
White Wolf
and Savage Worlds game systems. However, I still
needed some help to answer these questions. So I did what most people from my
generation do, I Googled
it. Before that one click that lost me several evenings of my life that I
would never get back, I had foolishly thought that I had the main questions in
hand; How wrong was I.
After
much deliberation, RSI in my hand from mouse clicking, and quite probably a
change in my spectacles prescription from peering at a computer screen for days
on end. I decided I would attempt to publish a small book of short
stories through
kindle digital publishing and harness the power of social media
services like Facebook
and Twitter
to market and promote my work.
So, what
I propose to do with this blog is document the steps I have to go through, my
successes and failures. Hopefully convincing anybody that happens along
with the same questions as I have, that it isn't an impossible dream, if you
want to write and publish, with some hard work and conviction, you can do it
too.
The chances
are if you like your stories then there are other people in the world that will
like them, which means you already have a fan base, you just have to find them.
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