It’s been a fun experience getting to learn the Wattpad
platform and community over the past few months. Having observed some great
talent serialize their works through online distribution, I am glad to have
tried it out.
That said, it’s been close to 10 years since I completed
work on my debut novel and less than 9 since I self-published it in 2005. 10
years later and I still haven’t recouped the initial cost of publication. But I
didn’t write Human Resources for the
money. Like graduating college, I ultimately did it to prove a point to myself
that I could be persistent enough to see it through.
Since writing that book 10 years ago, I’ve had 10 years of
experience reading new and interesting books. I have discovered authors that
the person I was wouldn’t have read back then and have learned a great deal
more about what great writing can look and sound like. And, I still have a ways
to go. Maybe that’s why I hesitate to write anything new.
There are also new challenges I face as a person who is 10
years older, married, and a father of three. This isn’t to say that I don’t
aspire to write again. I’m just not sure, outside of blogging, when that will
be.
So, with that I'll leave you with a link to a pretentious aspirational poem I wrote not long after my novel called Bohemian Urge.
Happy writing. Happy reading!
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