Yadda About Nada

Seriously considering an MFA in the very near future for several reasons - the main one being selfish. I love to learn, to discover new processes and explore new ideas. I think an MFA would help organize my thoughts and provide more structure and planning to my writing. Who knows.

Little time to write these days so I am not sure why I think I could finish an MFA. I guess sometimes I get so bogged down in the day to day minutia that I just want a change, something new, some type of renewal. Of course London wrote about the two divergent paths to writing - the first path is to write everyday for a set period of time and you can finish a novel in three months. Take one off and do it again. At the end of a year, you have written three novels. Of course, they will all get rejected by publishers, but you WILL be a better writer. After five years, and 15 novels, you will be good enough to get published.

The other path is to start small, write freelance for magazines and develop a reputation. Then, parlay the rep into a relationship with an agent, write, market, etc...either way, five years.

I guess I am taking the second path. I have two shorts published with www.redrosepublishing.com and available on Kindle at www.amazon.com and the publisher, among many other sites, but, the well has dried up for now. No time -sucks to be me.

However, and this is where you come in, if I can sell a few more books, my publisher will put me into print. Then I can actually do signings at Borders and Barnes and Noble, not to mention county fairs and tag sales. That may get some more momentum to the book and motivate me to write more, so, help an author out.

If you are so inclined, drop by www.redrosepublishing.com and look me up under the author tab to purchase "A Slice of Life," or, to purchase "Pickup Lines From a Pickup Truck," look up Cara Preston (my co-author). You can also go to www.amazon.com and type in Spike Fremont in the author box. Both books are less than two bucks and you can be reading them in the next five minutes.

Keep reading - hopefully I'm on your list.

Spike