1.Posté par Tia le samedi 23 février 2013 à 16:36
Hi Sharon,A friend of mine in Jax saw the Times Union aritcle and sent it to me. I have been looking for months on how to reach the publishing world, with limited funds, and see if my fiction books meet the grade. I'm 71, retired and have been house/bed bound for the last three years with Diabetes. My mind is clear as a bell, so those three years were not wasted. I got into writing with my Autobiography of my war in Vietnam. I wanted to leave my family something about that war. Then I started getting ideas for fiction books. I have completed four and have about six more in the mill. I don't read anymore, I write. When writing, I become the main character and just use my 71 years of life to fill in the story. I tried looking for a style, but gave up. I write for a reader and for a viewer; if it were ever made into a movie/TV program. Writing has become a highlight of my day. I have down times, and then hot flashes. One night while getting a snack, I sat there for more than an hour at the kitchen table and completed two chapters of my new book ..all in my mine. When I got up to go back to bed, it felt like it had been only a few minutes. The next moring, I started writing from memory. Thank God .and a lot of great people for the computer .. The word processing is awesome .it checks my spelling and grammar. What a new world.I will start working on my pitch for one of my books called My Father's War. Robert J. WellsEdgewater FloridaAugust 23, 2011