This morning I discovered Scot Herrick's writing blog, where "you can watch the artist actually become one." According to Herrick's site, he spent his whole career working in corporate America, but always felt writing tugging him into new directions:
"Reading a bad 'business thriller,' I decided I could write better than the author I was reading. So, I wrote a book. It was a terrible book; one that I also paid good money to be copy-edited, but even the copy editor couldn't save it. Not that I was bad, but I had no training on how to write, how to plot, or even to understand different points of view."
"What was amazing to me was how effortlessly I just went off into the writing zone. I was surprised by where my characters took me. I felt I was accomplishing something good for the first time in my life and not just fighting to stay employed."
That's the whole reason I took this site, a chance to work with fledgling writers. This site isn't for the polished John Updike's of the world, we're all struggling to find our way in the writing world. I'm not selling snake oil writing schemes or get-novels-quick strategies, we have a very simple purpose here--The Publishing Spot is built to help fledgling writers find community.
Welcome home...
What about updike 2.0?
Posted by: Dan Zarrella | June 27, 2006 10:27 AM | Permalink to Comment