Introduction

Hello and welcome.

I have always loved to write, but always carried around that assumption that people who "just write" are misfits or too lazy to get a real job. Having had several real jobs, I still have this great passion to create art, and that's what writing is.

Something deeper to say about that? Art wasn't meant to be crafted and then tucked away. Art is supposed to be shared, and good art is appreciated when it is shared. I could write whatever I want and I know it would be good - at least to me it would be a work of art. But I want my art to be appreciated. Who wouldn't?

I have several stories in mind, I'm going to let them ferment and develop as I learn this new trade. Yes, having loved to write since before I could write in cursive, I still have much to learn. It is art after all and before an artist displays his art, he should at least become good at it. That is what I am working toward achieving. I was surprised at how many things I have not needed to learn, I apparently learned them naturally. Isn't it nice when that happens? Other things, I found I have had to study, reflect, and play around with. That's how life goes.

J.P.T.