I’ve been writing a long time. At least half-a-century. From a small town I had no idea how to get published. I never even tried. My career steered me away from submitting my fiction. That doesn’t mean I wasn’t writing. Even since 2009, when I published my first short story in my late forties, I’ve been writing them on my computer. Some of them the software has evolved so much that it can’t read. And there’s really quite a backlog. And that doesn’t count the stacks of paper manuscripts in my attic. I’ve been trying to sort these old files. I do this when I hit a dry spell. And again software works against me. You see, I initially write in Scrivener. Publishers want things in Word, but since I use a Mac that means Pages, converted at the last second. My older Pages documents can’t be read. (This is only since 2009, mind you, less than twenty years! The handwritten paper that’s even ol...
Blog of a struggling writer.