Hi, Stephen.
I'm just reading your book, "On Writing" and want to say thanks!
A client at work gave it to me when I told her I was fooling around with fiction writing for the first time. She said I had to read it, and I've barely been able to put it down!
I've never really taken my writing seriously, but have done lots of blogging and writing for volunteer organizations, and English was my good subject in high school. This first attempt at fiction writing is exhilarating, but until I started reading your book it's just felt like a romp -- just for fun, you know?
Now I'm starting to reconsider.
My story is about a couple of middle aged people who become homeless and wind up living in a squat with some other people. What inspired me was going through a very difficult financial period, and wondering how other older people cope.
For the first time in my life I got involved with a network marketing company and joined a forum where mostly other network marketers blogged. I soon realized that, like me, these were people who were just desperate to find a way to make money.
Since mostly the posts are about how to get leads, business advice and various (often dubious) online money making opportunities, I thought I'd start writing a story about people who were financially desperate and what they were doing about it. Since they've all seen the other stuff a million times before, I thought they'd enjoy a story to follow instead. And it would be an opportunity to play with fiction writing.
Thanks again. I've been doing some rewriting since reading your book and I'm only about 3/4 of the way through.
All the best,
Diana
I'm just reading your book, "On Writing" and want to say thanks!
A client at work gave it to me when I told her I was fooling around with fiction writing for the first time. She said I had to read it, and I've barely been able to put it down!
I've never really taken my writing seriously, but have done lots of blogging and writing for volunteer organizations, and English was my good subject in high school. This first attempt at fiction writing is exhilarating, but until I started reading your book it's just felt like a romp -- just for fun, you know?
Now I'm starting to reconsider.
My story is about a couple of middle aged people who become homeless and wind up living in a squat with some other people. What inspired me was going through a very difficult financial period, and wondering how other older people cope.
For the first time in my life I got involved with a network marketing company and joined a forum where mostly other network marketers blogged. I soon realized that, like me, these were people who were just desperate to find a way to make money.
Since mostly the posts are about how to get leads, business advice and various (often dubious) online money making opportunities, I thought I'd start writing a story about people who were financially desperate and what they were doing about it. Since they've all seen the other stuff a million times before, I thought they'd enjoy a story to follow instead. And it would be an opportunity to play with fiction writing.
Thanks again. I've been doing some rewriting since reading your book and I'm only about 3/4 of the way through.
All the best,
Diana
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