Welcome to Stone Writer, another blog for those creative minded individuals who have nothing better to do, than sit on their ass and write.
G.K. Chesterton, an influential English writer of the early 20th century, is quoted as saying, “I had always felt life first as a story, and if there is a story, there is a storyteller.”
I’ve always loved stories, all types of stories. To loosely paraphrase the ending voiceover from the Naked City TV series, an old 50’s cop show, “There are eight million people in this city, and everyone of ‘em’s got a story.” As a kid, I soon realized the show was right. There were plenty stories out there and millions of them are still waiting to be told.
Like most kids, I was in awe of great story telling. However, my interests were limited to television, movies, and comic books. But, at the tenacious age of 14, I discovered something called a novel. My stepfather introduced me to Mack Bolan, the Executioner. Bolan’s author, Don Pendleton, kept me awake many nights. I had graduated. Not from school, but from comics. I knew then that manhood was just around the corner.
As you can see by my bio, I’ve created many stories, and like with your stories, it all had to start somewhere. It took me until the age of 45 to decide I wanted to write a novel. Over the next three years I did so. It was 550 pages and it sucked. Not the story, but the way I told the story or should I say, the way I didn’t show the story.
I’ve been working on the rewrite ever since, but have gotten sidetracked by life. As I’m sure many of you have in your own writing endeavors. In the meantime though, I’ve learned the art of writing, how to create mystery, action, and dynamic dialogue, while working as a freelance ghostwriter.
On what I hope to be a daily basis, I'll be posting my thoughts, writing processes, book reviews, and ideas about writing for you to laugh at, scoff, learn, and enjoy. I’ll also post info on everything surrounding writing and the growth of a writer. I will explore the mundane and the odd things that happen to writers as they put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard and anything else that catches my interest.
I might even, from time to time, have a guest poster to help convince you that although your family and friends think you’re odd for sitting at your keyboard for hours on end, you are not.
You’re a writer, and writers write.
Please feel free to post your feedback and let me know what you think!
During my informative years as a child, I survived being incarcerated at several different orphanages around the north side of Chicago. One of them was called, Angel Guardian Orphanage. At another one, I can't remember the name of, I got chicken pox and was put in solitary confinement for a month in the infirmary. I had two windows that looked out onto several tar-covered rooftops and three beige walls to stare at. They gave me my meals through a little opening in the metal door that sealed me in, like an ant in an ant trap. I remember being scared and lonely.
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