I’ve volunteered/asked to be included in Novelspot’s Behind-the-Scenes promotion.  Basically, I write my path to becoming an author into 7 posts, which will be posted throughout a week.  They have some space, so I’m going to start in on this near the end of the week once I get a solid grasp of the life divisions.

So far I’ve got:

Early Years- Reading/Writing as a child and wandering away from it for a while.

High School-  When I made the decision to be an author.

College/D&D-  When I went for the degree and created Windemere through gaming.

Vanity Press-  My two attempts at trying a vanity press.

Day Job vs. Writing-  The tough balancing act that I tried for 10 years.  A lifetime of outlining and planning.

Amazon Self-Publishing-  The decision to go for the self-publishing route.

I’m not sure of a 7th to put in there because there is a lot of coverage throughout those categories.  I’m seeing people posted about how they got into it.  I’m playing with the idea of making one day a point where I show how insane I almost went by trying to design the Legends of Windemere video game or turn it all into a series told through poetry with each character having his or her own poetic style.  That was a mess.

I’m still going to do editing today and tomorrow while taking breaks to plan this out. I can feasibly crank this out in a few days because I’ve pondered it a lot.