(This was actually a post I made when I first started this journal.)<\/p>\n
Well, when I\u2019m not online, I\u2019d like to think I\u2019m a quite talented fiction writer and when I\u2019m working on my fiction, I\u2019d like to believe I\u2019m creating the Great American Novel. Maybe I\u2019m just fooling myself, but I really do enjoy writing and have always wanted it to be my profession. The one thing I\u2019ve always done since early childhood is make up stories. Many only existed in my head, but when I was about 14, I started putting some of those thoughts on paper. I\u2019d sit in my classes in school, while taking notes on one page, underneath, I\u2019d be writing. The stories I wrote in high school are filed away somewhere, all written in longhand, but then, I got my first type writer and it was amazing hearing my fingers hit the keyboard as I was creating something, most definitely drivel, but I was writing and I loved it.<\/p>\n
I grew up in a place with hundreds of years of history, culture and \u2013 to draw upon for my fiction. Santa Fe beams with sunshine and enchantment. (Gosh that sounds cliche.) Still, my hometown tends to be the settings of my stories or where my characters are from. I am tied to my hometown, just as my characters are and it\u2019s quite obvious from my fiction. Needless to say, my characters are strongly New Mexican, who are quite proud of where they come from, some tend to have more wanderlust than others and have many facets of my own personality.<\/p>\n
Of course, this is about me. When I\u2019m not sitting madly at my computer obsessing about my stories, I work in real estate. I keep saying that I\u2019m going to work my way back to journalism, I just haven\u2019t made the phone call to the newspaper editor to get the ball rolling. I will do it tomorrow. Or manana as they say \u2019round here. I am an only child, so all my characters have siblings, go figure. I have older parents and feel a need to stay close to home. I have no significant other, but wouldn\u2019t be adverse to settling down with a nice guy, having a couple of dogs and at least one kid. I am also perfectly content in having the dogs and kid first. Who knows\u2026 it could be a fabulous plot to a story. Maybe I won\u2019t have to write it. Anyway, I hope that story never goes unfinished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(This was actually a post I made when I first started this journal.) Well, when I\u2019m not online, I\u2019d like to think I\u2019m a quite talented fiction writer and when I\u2019m working on my fiction, I\u2019d like to believe I\u2019m … Continue reading