Join Me In My Quest

      I have to admit that I am one but a million or perhaps millions who wants to make my niche in the unforgiving field of writing, a field in which there lies the corpses of countless finished stories, many of which are very good, but yet will never be read by anyone who is not either directly related to the writer or a dear friend who can not bear the thought of telling his friend that he might be wise to chose another vocation.
      But that is the very thing - the very heart of this beast which beats only to have its purpose served. The story must come out. It curls itself up in the writer like the tentacles of a hungry octopus squeezing the story out of us. In other words, we do not chose the vocation. The vocation chooses us. That is it.
      I have done this thing since I was seven and only those out there who are writers can understand the knowing moment when you first realize that you are a writer. Once you know this it becomes a lifelong thing. It is not a thing you can run away from or deny. It is just who you are. The writers who read this will understand. You see a pencil and a notebook and the urge to put something down on that paper that is good and make sense is stronger than any drug that will ever go into your body.

      All that being said it also imperative to understand that just because you are chosen to do a thing, just because you are very good and even excellent at it, does not mean that you will make a living at it. There is so much more than that. Once you toss you name into the hat - once you put your book up for sale on Amazon as I have done - then you become the equivalent of a grain of sand on the beach. You may indeed be a very intelligent, very gifted grain of sand but the even the most beautiful flower in a field of a billion flowers will have a hard time standing out.
     I am here to stand out. I am Tim Keen. I have a book for sale on Amazon - Kindle Section. It is called After Hours.

    Please email me at timkeen40@yahoo.com if you have received this blog. I have a free sample of my book for your perusal.

Thanks,
Tim Keen