I will remake myself as a professional; first I must become an expert.
I invite you to follow me as I move towards a new goal: Overnight success. How long does overnight success take? According to an old adage,
it takes ten years to succeed overnight. I must increase my digital footprint, but first, I must actually leave tracks.
Is writing a profession, a hobby, or nothing? Robert McKee proposed (in
Story) that like musicians, an author must study his craft. With less than three months on my MA, I feel I am pursuing that goal. I also found ways to leverage experience, MOOCs and other resources to become an expert. Stephen King advises any writer planning to make a living as a writer to reconsider. Truly, millions write millions of books each year. How does one get noticed?
If you want to know, follow me to see. If I succeed, copy me. If I fail, learn from me.
First, I resolve to finish rewriting Love Transcends, a collection of new and previously published short stories by yours truly. This has been a difficult book for me. One of the stories, "Mining Chernobyl," was my first professional payment on a publication. Unfortunately, the company has not been able to push the anthology out. Since I do not have rights to republish until at least 90 days after publication, we've had to wait. Not to mention rewriting several stories, removing one and making it into a novel itself, and finally adding a new story to fill the hole this left. Best of all is that the cover art is done by my wife, Trisha Hammerquist.
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