Lazy!

Damn, it’s been a while.  I don’t expect anyone’s fallen into deep depression for lack of my insights on the writerly process.

I’ve been trying, generally successfully, to hold my tongue on the subject of the dismantling of collegiality, common sense, and gentility that’s progressing so rapidly. Of course, none of that belongs in a blog on writing.  I was perhaps afraid some untoward sentiment would leak out. Tax plan that makes no economic or social sense.

I’ve proffered my first two books to a couple of contests.  Crude tweets. A long list here, a “really great writing, but …” there.  I am readying myself to address agents and small presses.  The whole idea gives me heartburn.

On the plus side, my three critique groups have helped my writing enormously. Failure to hold up our position in the world. It’s not just the insights as to plot and character.  It’s the odd personal writing quirks I have that members catch.  I, of course, don’t recognize them until someone points them out.

More soon.  Gotta pull myself out of the funk

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. View all posts by John Rogers