Me - the Writer
Jan. 21st, 2020 08:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shayzamnI write. I have so many ridiculous ideas. Some stick, some don't.
Most of what I write these days is modern fantasy. Stories of what the world would be like if one little thing changed - or one big thing. I have wanted to be a published author since at least 6th grade. I wrote a lot in school - enough that my 6th grade English (Gifted and Talented nonsense) voted me most autistic because I would rather write than deal with the people around me. (Funny story about that... 30-odd years later, turns out they were right).
The current novel is "Ghost Cab." It is a modern fantasy murder mystery involving Ayn Tudur, the owner of Tudur Restoration - she and her crew restore classic cars for a living. However, her crew is a little different - sure, she hires ex-cons, no big deal. She also hires vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural people. Why? Well, why not? As long as they can do the job.
They get mixed up in a murder investigation due to Ayn's Other Job - driving the Ghost Cab. She and her family have long been the escorts of the dead, getting them where they need to be after death. Unfortunately, this time it's put Ayn and her crew in danger from both the police and the murderer.
So this year my goal is to finish writing Ghost Cab and edit heavily, then send it out for the great agent search.
Writing is a weird exercise for me. I write well enough, but apparently I am a better storyteller than writer. *shrug* I was told by an agent that she loved to watch me give my pitch -that it was performance art. But alas... she didn't take the story. I have this sneaking suspicion that it's all about emotions - I feel like my writing falls into one of 2 categories regarding emotion - either flat flat flat or so far over-the-top purple prose that it makes Tolkien and romance writers look like they never met an adjective.
I've not met a great match in writing groups. I've even joined some that were of people I know that wrote, and rarely did they even bother to read my stuff. Great for the ego, let me tell you! I have been told "I don't read that kind of stuff," and "Well, your writing makes me feel bad, so I can't read it." Really? Then WHY WOULD YOU JOIN A WRITING GROUP??? (sorry.. deep breath). I would love to find a group that reads and has intelligent commentary about the story - the good, the bad, and the things that desperately need fixing in the plot or whatever. It's just hard for me to find.
I will also say that I don't think my writing is any great shakes. I do it because the stories won't go away until I do write them down. I do it because I enjoy it (mostly). I would love to get published, absolutely. But I don't think I believe it will ever happen.
Most of what I write these days is modern fantasy. Stories of what the world would be like if one little thing changed - or one big thing. I have wanted to be a published author since at least 6th grade. I wrote a lot in school - enough that my 6th grade English (Gifted and Talented nonsense) voted me most autistic because I would rather write than deal with the people around me. (Funny story about that... 30-odd years later, turns out they were right).
The current novel is "Ghost Cab." It is a modern fantasy murder mystery involving Ayn Tudur, the owner of Tudur Restoration - she and her crew restore classic cars for a living. However, her crew is a little different - sure, she hires ex-cons, no big deal. She also hires vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural people. Why? Well, why not? As long as they can do the job.
They get mixed up in a murder investigation due to Ayn's Other Job - driving the Ghost Cab. She and her family have long been the escorts of the dead, getting them where they need to be after death. Unfortunately, this time it's put Ayn and her crew in danger from both the police and the murderer.
So this year my goal is to finish writing Ghost Cab and edit heavily, then send it out for the great agent search.
Writing is a weird exercise for me. I write well enough, but apparently I am a better storyteller than writer. *shrug* I was told by an agent that she loved to watch me give my pitch -that it was performance art. But alas... she didn't take the story. I have this sneaking suspicion that it's all about emotions - I feel like my writing falls into one of 2 categories regarding emotion - either flat flat flat or so far over-the-top purple prose that it makes Tolkien and romance writers look like they never met an adjective.
I've not met a great match in writing groups. I've even joined some that were of people I know that wrote, and rarely did they even bother to read my stuff. Great for the ego, let me tell you! I have been told "I don't read that kind of stuff," and "Well, your writing makes me feel bad, so I can't read it." Really? Then WHY WOULD YOU JOIN A WRITING GROUP??? (sorry.. deep breath). I would love to find a group that reads and has intelligent commentary about the story - the good, the bad, and the things that desperately need fixing in the plot or whatever. It's just hard for me to find.
I will also say that I don't think my writing is any great shakes. I do it because the stories won't go away until I do write them down. I do it because I enjoy it (mostly). I would love to get published, absolutely. But I don't think I believe it will ever happen.
