Welcome to my Corner of the Web

My imagination is one of the few things I am proud of. I can usually create stuff in the fly…or so I thought when I was a kid.

Now, grown up, I realized I am not that special in terms of creativity. In a sense, my ideas have been used by other more talented artists and writers. Still, I am proud of some of my work.

I always wanted to be a writer. In third grade I wrote my first short story. I kept writing but never finished anything. I moved to the United States and I was told that my writing abilitites were…below par.

I still remember when I wrote a report on “Gone with the Wind” in a senior high school class. I was very proud of it. I thought it was a masterpiece, but I got a C. When I asked the teacher why I got such a low grade, he responded “Because I couldn’t give you any lower grade!”

Don’t know if he was kidding. It wasn’t the first time nor the last my writing was described as bad. It continued through college and even as my first job as a journalist. In fact, my poor writing skills was a factor in me losing my job. My editor told me they need to lay off writers who needed the most help, and I was at the bottom of the totem pole.

So I got depressed. I had written a novel at the time but never publish it.

After some years, I got married and decided to revisit the novel…and it was terrible.

I rewrote it again. Changed some themes, added characters, plotlines and made less male-centric. It is better. Not by much, but better.

I tried selling it again. Again I failed. In part, I was told I needed more name recognition, and now that I started Social Media Classes, maybe I can bring myself more recognition.

So here I am, writing just to keep practicing. I am posting the novel by chapters just to have it out there, and also writing more reviews and other stuff.

Maybe I will write another novel. I don’t know yet.

But I just want to do something.