My thoughts on writing

Hello and welcome to my web page. Since I have never written a web page previously you may have to bear with me as I flounder my way along. The fact is that until my book, “COLD TRAIL,” was published I had written for my own enjoyment. My writing efforts were for my own diversion, my escape, from the stresses that I encountered in my daily life. I let my imagination take me away from it all.

The question is how did I go from writing for my own enjoyment and decide to take the next step into being published? What gave me, an amateur writer, the right to think that I could create a story that others would want to read and provide them an enjoyable experience? The answer, like the solution to many questions, has more than one root that gave rise to the confidence to try.

I could not figure out how to explain it in the “bio” for my book. I admit that the “bio” chosen won’t sell many copies of my book. The publisher asked me to tell about myself in a brief manner. I gave them the basics of “me” that I thought might mean something to a prospective reader; things that resembled credentials to be writer; things others would understand in a brief two or three paragraphs. I have already admitted the “bio” is lame, but here is more about me.

I am a fifty-five year old single man. I was married for twenty-one years of my life with that marriage producing my son. I hold a B.S. degree in Business Administration and have been employed in the field of transportation management for thirty-two years. I have experienced a cancer scare in my life and still recall the fifteen radiation treatments that I was subjected to in the follow up treatment. Sports have been an interest in my life for nearly all of my life. I played baseball through college and coached kids’ baseball for eighteen years plus served on a Little League board of directors for several more years. My heart has been broken when an important relationship ended. It took three years to get over her. I have had the love of family and the support of friends forming the foundation in life that I rely upon to get through the ups and downs. Is this what I should have said in my “bio?”

Why do I think that I can write books that others might enjoy reading? The one consistent thing that all writers seem to do is to live life; writers experience pain and happiness; writers observe people visually and as listeners; and writers, most of all, have a desire to write. I have been there and done that. I continue to do these things. Therefore, why not write about it? If I enjoy what I do then others may enjoy it, too.

The experts say to just go do it. My son and daughter-in-law said do it. My friends said to do it. Now, I have done it. I have not only written a book, but gotten it published for my very first time. I enjoyed writing, “COLD TRAIL,” and that made a huge difference for me. It taught me lessons as I wrote and I gained more lessons in the effort to become published. I plan to share my thoughts and experiences with those who visit my web page. Enjoy what you write and keep writing.