I’ve wanted to be a novelist since I was in middle school… maybe before that, but memories get fuzzy and ideas of what I wanted become a bit more simplistic – like pie, a skateboard… you know.
Not having a lot of money didn’t make me especially business-minded or motivated by material things like it does people in the movies. I went to college and should have studied something that would have allowed me to make a ton of money out of the gate. I studied cultures and religions.
Since middle school I’ve built up a collection of novel and short story pieces, random poems, and even started movie scripts. No matter what I do to make a living, it always comes back to writing.
I’ve designed and written content for my own websites with some limited success, but not a day goes by that I don’t think of those novels that are still waiting to go onto paper.
So… taking a page out of the weight loss advice books, I’ve decided to be semi-public about my efforts to become a novelist. I have hundreds of handwritten pages of different UNFINISHED novels in notebooks around the house. I am currently unemployed and job hunting, but it is also time to crack down and dedicate some of my time to the pursuit of becoming a novelist. I’ll use this blog to be public and hopefully provide some advice and useful resources or ideas to readers who are on similar boats in the same waters.
Sang-froid.com is a website I registered several years ago and never used. It seems appropriate now as I’ve got to remain sang-froid as I hunt for a job, try to support a family emotionally and financially, and pursue the dream of becoming a novelist.