I’ve been working to become a published author now for a few years. I’ve had some success with the short story markets in Science Fiction and I self published my first novel, as an experiment with new processes in publishing.
The most valuable thing I’ve found during my journey so far is the support and wisdom of fellow struggling writers. I have many blogs that I surf daily if not weekly in an effort to keep up with friends and learn valuable new things. The idea has occurred to me and to others that it would be cool if all those writers had a single place to put their useful posts about the craft of writing. I’d still visit everyone’s blog just to keep up with them personally; but when I wanted to reference an old article about writing, I could have one place to go to search for it.
So I asked some of my writer friends who also blog if they would be interested in this kind of a newbie writing blog, and they all agreed that it would be kinda cool. What you see here is the result. I hope you come along with us and contribute in comments or in posts. If anything, you can use the blog as an excuse to get a few words written for the day, even if they are not on your WIP (Work In Progress).
Ken McConnell
Ken McConnell
Matt Mitchell
Stephen Buchheit
bandraiocht
A Smith
sallyfogel
stefwithnf
ladybriony
I will be checking on posts, looking for pearls of wisdom.
I would respectfully request you all sign your posts, or otherwise flag who wrote what. Maybe it’s just me, but I get distracted if I can’t see who it is saying what.
Good point Todd. We are trying to find a theme that displays the post author and uses a san-serif font, as that works best on the web. It ain’t easy when you have to use the free themes and you can’t tweak them.
Expect some changes as we work out the bugs. Bye the way, we’d love to have you on board posting, if your interested.