Writing as if I'm serious about it

Like most aspiring authors (I would say “writer” but I do write, so I’m not an aspiring writer . . . I’m an aspiring author), I have my doubts.  These doubts are magnified when the material I write is somewhat outside my comfort zone.

I prefer to write science fiction, or even plain-ole fiction, but I’m dabbling into fantasy.  And, since I don’t read much fantasy, I don’t know if the path I’m traveling is well worn, seldom traveled, or if I’m wandering into uncharted territory.

There are other worries . . . I’m fairly skeptical of the supernatural.  By “fairly skeptical” I mean I think it’s all bunk.  By “supernatural” I mean all the stuff humans would like to believe to be true, specifically that there’s more to the world than what six-billion-plus of us experience every day.  More important, I mean what people believe in that not one of them six-billion-plus can show any evidence for beyond personal conviction.

Take all that, combine it into a filter, and when I look through the filter at my story, I don’t know if it’s interesting and thought-provoking, or just plain silly and possibly stupid.

But, you know what?  There’s no Oz, either, and look at all the love that story gets.  Well, probably more the movie, but still . . .

So, I won’t worry about it.  Given the law of large numbers, there are bound to be at least a few who find the characters and plot of my story, this story, of interest.

To you, the ones who willingly ride this path with me, I raise a glass, and make a toast.  I would like to make a sourdough bread toast, but we’re out, so I’m making a 12-grain toast . . . with honey.  Yum.

But enough of this trite and self-serving whining . . . on with my story.

As usual, you can go to Legends Undying, and read it there, or you can wait a few minutes while I prep the next blog entry, and read it here at Disperser Tracks.  It is presented exactly as it was posted at Legends Undying.

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