I read this in a New York Times opinion piece on Alex Rodriguez: Joe Torre said, “the really good hitter has to ‘concern himself with getting the job done, instead of how it looks. … There’s a certain free-fall you have to go through when you commit yourself without a guarantee that it’s always gong to be good. … Allow yourself to be embarrassed. Allow yourself to be vulnerable.'” If it hadn’t been about baseball, I would have sworn it was about writing.
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Author: John Rogers
I have thought of myself as a writer for most of my adult life. In 2011, I became a fiction writer full time. I studied creative writing as an English major in college. Then came family and career. I worked in finance and biotech and did a wonderful stint in Vienna. Now, I have the opportunity to use those experiences as the substrate for my stories. My first novel takes on the world of Big Data and the very timely issue of cyber war. The second uses the manipulation of financial derivatives as impetus for attempted murder during a trip from Vienna to Budapest on the Danube.
I have taken writing instruction at the Cape Cod Writers Conference and from The Loft in Minneapolis. I am finding writers’ groups to be very helpful as concept editors, as well as practical advice from the published authors. I am in three such groups. I have taken writing instruction at the Cape Cod Writers Conference and from The Loft in Minneapolis.
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