Story Land Jamboree

Hello, Dear Reader and members of The Tribe, As I begin my journey to toward publishing again (short stories, poems, and novellas, at first, but a novel being the ultimate goal), I find I had to do something important first. Write! Um, hello? Yes, I have to write. I've been feeling the urge to write. It's like an itch beneath my skin that I must scratch or it will not go away. I have found that stories beg to be written. They will haunt me as voices, whose whispers echo around the eaves of my mind until I do their bidding and let the story out. It is only when the story has found life on the page that the urge will go away for THAT particular tale. Then, another voice will begin to whisper ... I find it is like an addiction. Writing is something that I can't not do. I get the mental equivalent of the shakes and I get depressed. Maybe it's simply repressed creativity? I don't know. I just know I am weak and lazy when it comes to doing things that are hard and...

Hello, Dear Reader and members of The Tribe! This is my first post and I don't know where to begin ... (which is not unusual for me). I've been starving for your presence along this journey; which, I finally decided to make official. I sit here on the brink of finally making some personal goals come true. Do you know what that is like? How many of you out there set goals day after day -- and year after year -- and never just tackle the suckers and make them happen. Well, today I am owning it. Do you hear me? I. Am. Owning. It. My goal? To publish some great stories in that other realm of Fantasy, SciFi, and Horror (mainly Fantasy and SciFi, I admit). I want to use this blog to gather inspiration and pretty much journal my thoughts along the way. So, I guess I begin at the beginning. To meet any goal, one must begin by assessing where one is on the road to The Goal. What have I done to meet The Goal, so far? Well, I am a former reporter and I won some Associate Press A...