Most people don’t consider writing a “hobby” art form, like painting a Bob Ross landscape on a relaxing Sunday afternoon or taking a high-end SLR camera into the woods to pretend to be Ansel Adams.
Writers are supposed to be deathly serious. They try to get published so they can throw off the chains of their day jobs and live the feast-or-famine life between advances and royalties. I like my day job.
That’s not for me. I write because I like writing. It makes me a better reader, observer, thinker. Maybe after I’ve written a dozen crappy novels, I’ll have one that’s worth trying to sell. I kind of doubt it, though.
And even though this is primarily a software blog, I’m going to post about writing from time to time.
I’ve participated in both National Novel Writing Month (four attempts, three victories) and ScriptFrenzy (one attempt, one victory). I’ve got one readable Novel (Optic Nerve) and one readable screenplay (Marc X and the Legion of Benign Disdain). If you’re interested in reading either one. Let me know and I’ll send you a soft copy.
In order to help the next generation of writers, I volunteer with a local non-profit writing center 826 Seattle. I’ve helped with tutoring, and led a “write a novel in a month” workshop for teenagers.
