Day one- act one

So this is my first attempt at "Blogging" so please bare with me if I ramble a bit. I've never been one to journal, I always felt that my time was better spent in actually writing the stories rather than writing stories about writing the stories. Anyway...

Let's start at the begining, My name is Dave and I am a writer.

There I said it, right out loud and everything, not that you, the reader, could hear me, unless you are standing behind me in kitchen here while I tap away at the keyboard of my lap-top. If that is the case, be a pal and hand me a soda will ya?

Blogging is damned parched work.

Here's a little background on little old me - I am an avid reader, and I mean AVID. I tend to read two books a week, and even as I write this I am working my way through three different novels. The Lost Symbol - by Dan Brown. Splinter Cell: Conviction - by David Michaels. And my old stand-by, Don Pendleton's The Executioner: Lethal Compound - by who ever the latest ghost writer is who is currently carrying the mantle. There are over 370 such novels - only the first 38 were actually penned by Don Pendleton himself - the rest, well they get a by-line on the inside cover.

I'd like to add my name to that list someday.

Besides reading, and working a full time "professional" job, and raising three great kids, I write. Hense the big statement about me being a writer. At the moment I am putting the finishing touches on what I hope will be my first published novel - Hey I said hope. I know the odds are long, but it is in me and it just has to come out. And since I am putting it to paper (actually screen since I write on the computer) I may as well share. Right? Right.

I have had some limited success with poetry, and I also write interviews with Publishers, Authors, Editors, Agents and the like on a few different websites. My own included - feel free to check them out www.10quickquestions.ning.com is where I post most of my interviews and I also have an online writers group, aptly named www.fictionwritersgroup.com where members place stories for review and entertainment.

I was trying to make the writer's group site into the next Next Big Writer site but with limited cash flow it died out quickly - now it is a free site to everyone, feel free to promo your books on the site as well. It still gets several thousand hits a month, so it might help to get your book sold.

Well I guess that should about do it for today. How did I do? Let me know and don't be afraid to drop me a line. Yours, In Writing, Dave