My evolution as an author
Starting way back in the last millennium, I began my career as a writer. Since that time, my writing has gone through a series of evolutions.
Short Stories
I began writing short stories to master the crafts of story design and story-telling. Short stories have an advantage in that they are . . . short. I could create a number of short stories and get them critiqued and submitted in the time needed to write a novel. Eventually, I sold over 40 stories all of them less than 6,000 words long.
While writing another short story, a strange thing happened: it ended up as a novella, over 20,000 words. I wasn’t sure how that happened, but I didn’t worry about it and started another short story. This one ended up as an even longer novella. I realized my characters were becoming more complex and my plots more complicated and those factors accounted for the increased length.
I set out to write a novella and this time it ended up as a novel, over 60,000 words long
Novels
So, I decided I was a novelist and wrote a number of them (not all worthy of publication). Along the way, I realized I would have great difficulty writing another short story because the word count limitations are very restrictive.
As a member of several writing groups, I noticed that newbie writers have a lot of problems understanding how to go about creating a story. I decided to write a book to explain it all.
Non-fiction
The first non-fiction book was about writing fiction. That was followed by a book on self-publishing and after that, one on book marketing followed by more non-fiction titles.
I still get great story ideas for more short stories and novels, but I don’t have time to write them because of all the non-fiction projects
Infographics
While searching for a book on financial planning for my grandkids, I can across one that used infographics. While thumbing through it, I had this idea that it would be great fun to create a new version of my book on fiction writing using an Infographic approach.
So I did it and now my writing regiment consists of all infographics. I have several more infographic projects planned
What’s next?
Who knows where my my writing evolution will go next. I can however, predict I won’t be writing (or composing) an opera. I do have ideas for some really weird stories so perhaps I’ll return to writing fiction.
If you’re interested in what the novels and non-fiction books (including the infographics) look like, visit https://www.amazon.com/~/e/B002BM76IE