writing

WHAT does it communicate?

A good storyteller weaves a thread of meaning into the listeners' environment and by doing so makes the world comprehensible.

Stephen R. Donaldson

As a writer, you are always trying to put your characters under stress, because that is how they define who they are.

Billy Ray
Screenwriter for Flightplan

HOW does it communicate?

does it communicate?

WRITING

So now that I have your attention what do I say? Writing is like art. There are so many methods to choose to relay your message. Fiction, Non-fiction, poetry, but within those are a multitude of genres.

NOW WHAT

FICTION

Most work I've done has been for assignments while in University. Do people care enough about my work individually to read through hours worth of rabble? I can hope.

NON-FICTION

Truthfully most of the ideas I think about have little to do with politics, social revolution or culture. They say to write about what you know. I know my experience. Most books & article ideas revolve around Christianity and the church. What can I say that is new? Maybe nothing. Maybe something fresh. Can you compare prayer with bowel movements? Altar calls with homosexuality? I dunno. Buy my books and find out (...once I write them that is).

POETRY

I used to think that those poetry anthologies where you pay $50 application fee and then another $120 for a leather bound copy were such a glamorous way to see your name in print. Well no longer. I decided to make my own and created a publishing company to boot. Alley Cat Publications was born of necessity over 10 years ago. Do people read poetry anymore? I dunno. Do I even write poetry anymore? This is beginning to sound like poetry,
actually.
            Maybe if it was,
            perhaps a bit more visual,
            would it make it more visceral
                                               to you
                                   knowing that I was
            intending
       you to read this as though it was poetic?

PLEASE TAKE ME HOME

Booklets are those things that aren't quite books, but are more austere than flyers or pamphlets. I designed my first booklet, which also was an anthology, in 1997. First printing was 50, and sadly I still have a good majority of them in my closet. Closets are good for many things...skeletons and other politically incorrect things I could say but won't. So, booklets... 'Glimpse: Brief Stories' is my most celebrated booklet (in my mind anyhow).

Booklets

What can I say about Anthologies? Yes, what can I say? Well, they are typically made up of a group of authors. Although if someone compiled an anthology of stories by a group of authors and then later found out that all those authors were really one writer who did a lot of ghost writing, would it be a 'real' anthology? Hey that could be an interesting story. Yes, anthologies. PV Sterling, Deanne Meyer, Amy Armstrong and myself 'Dancing under Moonlight'
not available in stores.

Anthologies

In 1988, when I was a teenager I began to write frequently. My curfew was 9:30 and we lived in the booneys. I had a lot of penpals (over 100 at one moment of time) that I kept in touch with frequently. So much so that I made a new mailbox next to my families strictly for my mail.

Rider of Ilanath came from those years. And is still being edited actually.

The second part of the triology, Wars of Ilanath is almost completed.

Novels

Also in 1988-89 I began to get involved more in writing comments down about Christianity, metal music and teen hardcore rebellion and ..oh wait, that was my brother. I wrote an article or two for his Underground rag called The Righteous Rebel, but decided to put out my own Zine appealing to Christians with the intent to subtlely encourage them to get off their fat spiritual asses.
No Condemnation began, as did my love for the article.
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