As stated
before, this is a replication of past posts of 'The Odyssey of This Writer' and
will occur here on Thursdays while 'The story of Terlokya' will be published
here on Tuesdays. Enjoy.
10/24/13 repeat of 02/05/13
As promised
- “The Odyssey of this Writer”, the story of how I became a
fantasy/sci-fi/romance writer, at least for the current 6 book series. Here's
the link: http://fritz-franke.tumblr.com/. The story is fresh with only 2 paragraphs posted. Follow if you dare and click if you like. It's gonna be a heckava
ride. You're going to think I'm insane. (That is if you don't already) ;)
02/05/13
So last week was the intro and I said I was gonna tell you how I
finally began writing. This fellow was buying my car back in 2005 and while
test driving it, with me riding shotgun, casual conversation led to the subject
of “What do you do?” I went first and said I was in Information Technology. The
guy acted surprised saying I didn’t appear to be that type of person, rather an
artsy/creative type. I asked what he did and he said he was a writer. I said
that I always wanted to be a writer. “Really?” was his response. “Got something
to write about?” I said yes and proceeded to tell him the story of Chris Gates
and the Savior Project – of course in an abbreviated form. Then I was telling
him my baseball story and he stopped me and said, “Dude, you gotta write this
stuff. It’s so new and fresh – not the rehashed crap that’s out there now.”
The fellow bought the car and I never saw him again. I was left
with the thoughts and desire to write. I sat on that idea for a year and didn’t
do anything except think about writing. One day in June of 2006, I hopped on my
computer and made notes on all the different stories that I wanted to write. There
wer 7 stories with the Savior Project series being 6 books. I sat back and
remembered that all of these stories had been dreams – dreams that I felt I
actually lived in. So I took a whack at beginning the first book from the
Savior Project series, The Chosen One. After I began the first few sentences, I
found out something. That’s for next week.
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