1 More Page Please
Alpa Dedhia is a crazy computer geek by day, and bookworm with chronic obsessive reading disorder by night. If books are a woman's best friend, then she's married to them. On here blog, 1 More Page Please, Apla has found a way to release all her pent up expressions. She says, "I like to read and write about what I read. So here I am, doing what I can, to spread the riches of humor, laughter, happiness, love that I find in the books I read."
Guest Author: Christopher Lynch (One Eyed Jack)
A few days back I read One Eyed Jack by Christopher Lynch and enjoyed it a lot. You can find my review here.
Chris is very kind. I could not read his book in time for a certain event but he was patient throughout.
In this post, he tells us his about his experience with writing and his book.
Please give a warm welcome to Chris, folks.
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Chris is very kind. I could not read his book in time for a certain event but he was patient throughout.
In this post, he tells us his about his experience with writing and his book.
Please give a warm welcome to Chris, folks.
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I wrote for twenty years before I really discovered writing. By that, I mean that I was so focused on “making it” by getting a sale and being published, that I left my passion for what I was writing about on the shelf. It was a huge mistake that costs me two decades of work.
Along the way, I dabbled in many forms of the craft. I wrote a novel, a couple of
screenplays, and several short stories. Non of them sold, nor should they have. I racked up a growing pile of rejection letters, and not much else.
It was only after I realized that I needed to write about what I was truly interested in, that I finally made that first sale. And then, it was another sale, and then another one. A year later, I had racked up five sales, all because I finally understood that selling was not what I should be focused on – loving what I wrote was. It was the “Ah-ha” moment that changed my life forever.
Although I’ve written quite a bit of non-fiction, it was always fiction that was my first love, and crime fiction almost exclusively. With that in mind, I set out to write a short story about a professional extortionist that gets caught up trying to blackmail the wrong person. My main character was the type of man who could keep any secret – for the right price . . .MORE
Along the way, I dabbled in many forms of the craft. I wrote a novel, a couple of
screenplays, and several short stories. Non of them sold, nor should they have. I racked up a growing pile of rejection letters, and not much else.
It was only after I realized that I needed to write about what I was truly interested in, that I finally made that first sale. And then, it was another sale, and then another one. A year later, I had racked up five sales, all because I finally understood that selling was not what I should be focused on – loving what I wrote was. It was the “Ah-ha” moment that changed my life forever.
Although I’ve written quite a bit of non-fiction, it was always fiction that was my first love, and crime fiction almost exclusively. With that in mind, I set out to write a short story about a professional extortionist that gets caught up trying to blackmail the wrong person. My main character was the type of man who could keep any secret – for the right price . . .MORE
