The gist.
What am I doing?
I’m drawing the line in the sand here for myself. I’ve spent most of my life reading, listening, watching, and thinking in stories. It is time to move from passive experience to active participation. This is not about fame, success, or money. This is about passion, joy, and the challenge of it all.
This is also not about sharing my writing (though I will). This is about sharing the process of learning to write: how I plan, what works, what doesn’t work, what roadblocks I hit, how I schedule my time, what I eat, how I take breaks—whatever lessons I learn and a log of my successes and failures.
Who am I?
I am not an experienced writer, I have no formal training, and I’ve never let experience or training stop me from doing and succeeding in the past. I am a 31 year-old IT professional, working for a large California research University. I have a degree in Religious Studies. I play foot hockey, racquetball, and sail. This is all somehow, I hope, going to translate into good writing.
What’s next?
Join me as I struggle to learn to write.
