The Inspiration
Welcome, all. Here’s my first post about my new site. I don’t know where to start, other than to be brutally honest with you, and myself.
I’m wasting my life thinking about what I want to do instead of actually doing it. I’ve got a long list of regretfully missed opportunities, and at the top of the list is my lack of having written anything I would actually enjoy reading. Basically, I’ve wanted to write a book for a very long time. By ‘long time’, I mean that at the age of 6 I told my family I wanted to be an author “when I grow up” during a joyful Christmas dinner at my Grandparents house. I’m 33 now and other than a lot of tripe I wrote in college (10 years ago) while earning my Writing Arts degree, I haven’t written anything that I’d consider myself proud of. That’s 27 years of relatively wasted dreaming and telling myself that I’d ‘get to it someday.’
Well, I’m hoping that ’someday’ is today. Welcome to The Finder Saga.
I have envisioned an ongoing tale for years that combines my love of zombie novels with my love of fantasy and magic. I’ve developed the idea and taken it down many different twisted pathways, often changing things based on what I was reading at the time. This new web site is going to be my ongoing serialized foray into actually taking that development and turning it into a finished project. It’s going to be frustrating and I’ll need to seriously get my writing chops refined, but it will also be cathartic and freeing. I’m finally going to share my tales.
I plan to release at least one new chapter each month. Each of them is basically the rough draft. I won’t be doing any heavy editing other than running a spell check and reading through it a few times. I tend to bog myself down in continuous “I can do better’s” and this is – in part – an exercise to stop that. You can read these rough drafts here, for free, and comment on the story as you see fit. I encourage all commentary – good and bad – as I sincerely want to write something that people want to read. I don’t care if I only have 1 reader who keeps coming back (thanks mom!), as long as someone else is sharing in this journey.
So, in preparation for this journey, thank you for taking this first step, and for what I hope are many rewarding steps ahead.
~Jaime~
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