I couldn't be any less prepared for this task if I tried.
I really only know how to do a few things in life. Besides the basics, like eating, sleeping, and reproducing (all of which are more about biological imperatives than any particular set of skills), I only have a few other learned skills. I am an adequate, and occasionally even effective, writer. And I am a half-decent drummer (I used to play professionally before marriage and children came along). Unfortunately, that's about it. I'm past my expiration date as a potential rock star, so I'm left with writing.
Of late, I have been paying the bills by writing. More specifically, I have been ghostwriting academic papers and articles and such for other people (I suppose mentioning the "ghostwriting" part renders the "other people" part a tad redundant. Please forgive me; I tend to err on the side of providing too much information)
I would very much like to write for a living. I have several ideas for novels, and I also believe a memoir of how I spent my twenties and thirties may be of interest to some people (more on that at a later time).
I am 44 years old, and almost missed the boat on the technological revolution (for example, my high school got its first computer, and the computer class to go with it, the year after I graduated).
I was the last of my friends to get a cellphone, and I only acquired a laptop once I began writing in earnest, and it became necessary to free myself up to write at home, at the library, and places where wifi is available.
I have read that people actually make money from blogging. I literally have no idea whatsoever how that works. I don't read blogs (well, not yet anyway), and until this moment have never written a blog. Among other things, I hope that this experience will serve to educate me about that, and many other things.
I also hope that I will "meet" people, at least virtually, through this venture. Again, I don't yet know how that could or will happen, but I hope to find out.
I recently set up my first facebook page. I have one friend, an ex-girlfriend whom I will soon be defriending. It didn't end well. (more on that later as well).
In sum: I wish to make a living as a writer, and this is one of the things that I hope will somehow be helpful in fulfilling that dream. If anyone actually reads this, whether you have advice or comments or just want to let me know you're here, I implore you to please contact me. Say hello, tell me about your blog, whatever. Just get in touch.
OK, that's it for now. My plan, as of now, is to post as regularly as possible, and to chronicle the learn-as-I-go process of becoming a blogger/writer/etc.
Thanks for reading, if you are indeed reading, and I will be back soon.
