Welcome

Well, Here it is! The big day of my first WordPress post. Everything I’ve read so far indicates that the existence of an online presence is a must it you want to be a published author.

Problem is, I am not at all sure I want to be published. There. I said it. Horror of horrors. Seriously, I love to write. Love to tell stories. I just don’t know if I want to fool with all of the bullshit that goes into getting it published. I seriously don’t know if it would be worth all the anxiety those damnable query letters generate. I mean you have to sell yourself and that’s just plain hard.

Wait a minute. Let’s think about this. Do you have to sell yourself?

Maybe not. Maybe all you have to do is present your story in a way that shows why you liked the story enough to actually spend all that time writing it. Hmmmm. Maybe I could write a query letter and not try to be cute, hip, awesome, wiseassed, or self important.

Yeah. I think I could do that. My point is that it doesn’t have to be a bloodletting. It needs to be an honest and straight-forward presentation that is succinct and yet revealing enough to give a true taste of the story. That’s it. Let it be about the story. The author is completely secondary.

There now. That makes it easier, don’t you think?

Keep on writing. BIC.