Am I a writer?
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It’s a question I often ask myself. Am I?
I suppose it depends on your definition.
Some folks reckon that until you’re published you can’t call yourself a writer. Others say you have to be paid for your work before you can assume the lofty crown.
Well I guess in a way I’m safe. Although I’ve had no fiction pubished I have had some interviews and reviews published in Bass Guitar Magazine, a magazine that has distribution here in the UK and the USA. And I was paid for it. It was quite a while ago but I even managed to secure space on the cover of one issue!
But do you need to be published or paid to call yourself a writer?
If you play the guitar in your bedroom are you a musician? I’m not sure…obviously you play an instrument, an integral part ot being a musician but I think something is missing. If you were to take that handful of chords and get down to your local open mic night and plays some songs or have a jam then I reckon you could call yourself a musician.
But if you paint and never sell your paintings are you an artist? Or do you just paint? I don’t know.
So I guess I could call myself a writer…just not a fiction writer. Yet.
New Year Resolution
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I’m sure many people have already broken their New Year resolutions. I’m surprised anyone makes them really as January is always such a depressing month (for me at least) that it’s just asking for failure.
Mine was simple but at the same time daunting. It consists of two parts:
1)Write more. Like many people I suffer from terrible procrastination. Much like its bowel based cousin it leads to a painful backlog resulting in all kinds of complications. If a job needs doing I’m sure to put it off until the pressure is really high and then have a terrible explosion…erm hang on…
Anyway this year I intend to spend a little less time playing videogames and lounging around and more time writing. It means I’ll have to be more organised in my final year at university but I’m old enough to handle that now.
Not only will I make sure to work on short stories I’m also intending to try and write and post a piece of flash fiction on a regular basis on this website. More on that later…
2) Submit my work. It sounds simple enough but it’s something I find vaguely terrifying. I’ve really only been working on creative writing in the last 18 months or so and the thought of someone turning around and telling me “No! What are you playing at!” is sweat inducing. But we all have to start somewhere and rejection seems to be a big part of writing, or any creative outlet. Time to grow a thick skin methinks!
Welcome
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Hello and welcome to my website!
This site will be a place for me to air my thoughts and feelings as I attempt to get my science fiction stories published. Although I have been writing fiction for modules on my university course I have only seriously considered submitting them over the last few months. I’m sure it will be a painful process with multitiudes of rejection slips, but nothing ventured nothing gained as they say.
Ben