Introductions are in order.

I am an aspiring writer.

Badly done cover before I changed the name the first time.

      I prefer to use that phrase rather then "I'm a writer," or "I'm and aspiring author."  Why? Well it's simple with me.

      I am a writer who is unpublished and still honing his craft.  I have finished the second book that I have written so far and am fighting myself into editing the little beastie.  Some authors have issues sitting down and writing consistently.  My nemesis happens to be the editing table as it were.

      You sit down, look at the work you have already done and you know it's not good enough so you change the words, fix the errors, and look for issues that aren't working.  This is where my first book died.  I may revisit it eventually, but for now I consider the story broken to the point where I would just have to rewrite the book from page one on.  Now that may not be the worst prospect, but I would rather take what I have put down on paper and rework it then start from proverbial scratch.

      The book I am working right now is presently titled "The Dark Below,"  I am debating taking the name back to "The Dragon's Apprentice."  It's a little urban fantasy that I realize after I wrote it really doesn't hold to much "urbaness" at all.  Most of it is spent in what might be considered fantasy type settings.  As it is, I like the book and the story and I am looking forward to having the writing reworked to the point where I can start marketing the book out to different agents/publishers.

     My goal is to have a new book written edited and finished every six months eventually.  Right now I'm still working the Book I did for NaNoWriMo back in November, so I've let myself get way behind schedule.  Part of this, is as it is the first book I want to actually market I have been farming some feedback before I go into crazy editing mode.  The other part is that I hate editing so as long as I have an excuse to put it off.....

       I am going to start working on being productive anyway.  I am prepping the outline etc... for book 2 of this trilogy and also working a side project.  I need to make sure I am still writing consistently however, with my job I don't have the luxury of being able to say I will write at time A consistently.  My schedule changes and fluxuates so my goals need to be set at places like, I will write 10,000 words this week.  I find I have a hard time writing daily, but when I do sit down I normally can bang out 3-5 thousand words.  There was one Saturday during NaNoWriMo where I knocked out 12,000 words in one day where I just marathon wrote.

      I will tie this up with my favorites list, and influences.  The books I suggest you, and everyone reads are as follows.

Robin Hobb.  The Farseer Trilogy.  (The rest of her books are fantastic, but this trilogy I love more then most.)
Robert Jordan.  The Wheel of time.  (I was reading it where there were only four or five books in the series"
Brandon Sanderson. Mistborn series, and Way of King Series.  (He also wrapped up Wheel of time)
Jim Butcher.  The Dresden Files.  (Simply amazing.  He uses the same formula for every book and it's so good it doesn't feel like it.)
Kim Harrison. The Hollows Series. (Another great Urban Fantasy)

     And my list goes on from there.  I will probably look back and realize that I missed several I would have wanted to mention.

Next time I will have an actual subject to discuss.  I will be past the introduction stage.

Ben.