The truths in your writing...
One of my goals with this new website, is to start at the beginning, or at the very least convey some perspective on my experience with the craft of writing . I want to tell people what I have learned along the way, and also give some perspective and history about story telling. Firstly , to all aspiring writers, I must say this: writing is a practice and the more a person does it the better they will get. But knowing how to write doesn't make a person a great writer, it means they can write well. So, with that in mind, what makes a great writer? When I started writing as a teenager, my goal was to write the great American novel, get published and not have to work a traditional job to make ends meet. I liked to write, but I was too young to have any stories to tell, or so I thought (much of writing is uncovering things). I wrote all the time. I finished my first novel when I was seventeen, an endeavor that took me two years and 721 pages to com...