I admit it. I’m bad news as far as being an e-author goes. I write slow. Well, that’s not quite entirely true. I draft fast, but I revise and rewrite slow. I have to think about it, ponder themes and subtexts, and weed out all the extraneous stuff I like to write that fleshes out worldbuilding.  Much of this stuff comes intrinsically and I’ve been doing it subconsciously up to now.  But as I like to grow as a writer and not rest on my laurels (such as they are), I’ve been paying more attention to what I do unconsciously and finding ways that I can consciously improve it.

A few years ago, when I realized that writing was actually my capital-D Dream–that  it was the force driving me, keeping me going through life’s ups and downs, and one of the reasons I wake up in the morning (the others are six and almost-three and have breakfast demands), I realized that if it wasn’t going to remain an unrecognized, unfulfilled, someday kind of dream, that I’d need to work at it.  To take the natural instincts that I have and understand them well enough to make them grow and refine them into the best manifestation they can be.  I’d have to prune the bad habits and encourage the tender shoots and hardy blossoms until they bore fruit, and then manage the growth to keep the harvest coming.

I have been glutting myself with the fertilizer of writing courses, techniques, articles, and lectures, and after a germination period that felt so long getting through, I’m emerging again to put what I’ve learned to pixels again.  It’s a daunting task, once you understand just how little you know.  But like any big step, sometimes you just have to close your eyes and do it.

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