My Final Message To You
[image error]On September 25, 2013, the Baked Scribe blog went live for the first time with a story titled, “Ambition”.
I was not a new writer by any means but I was new in my desire to seriously pursue the dream of having my writing published and to see my name on the cover of a book. I sought out a lot of guidance and advice at the time and one of the most common refrains I heard was that if you were going to be an author, you had to have a blog.
This is advice that I would now question. That is, I question the soundness of it unless you have the time, resources and willingness to put as much time into your blog as the rest of your writing. Ironically, while the blog may once have been a useful tool for marketing your brand, it now is as hard to get your blog recognized as it is your books.
Still, at the time, I thought it seemed like a good idea. But as I didn’t think an observational style blog could be a success for me, I thought that a blog instead could be a great way to introduce people to my writing, maybe to bring them around to buying a book or two from me on the side.
I had never been a fan of short stories but I devoted myself to this discipline and learned the craft of writing flash fiction as I went along this path. And I was surprised as much as anyone to find that I actually liked the form and found it to be a natural outlet for my abilities and narrative strengths. Writing these stories over the years for you has been educational for me but also a lot of fun.
I wanted to make sure I took a moment before the final story saw the light of day. I can’t say enough how grateful I am to all of you who have been checking out and enjoying these stories.
Note – this is excluding the guy who stole my work and published it as his own. That guy is an asshole.
Without you there on the other end to read my work, I’m pretty much nothing. This doesn’t work without you. Thank you for being a reader in this culture of easier digital options for entertainment. Thank you for being
interested in a genre that has become less profitable over the years. But mostly, thank you for allowing my words to take up even a little of your overly crowded lives. Thank you for helping me make these memories.
Thank you.
I was not a new writer by any means but I was new in my desire to seriously pursue the dream of having my writing published and to see my name on the cover of a book. I sought out a lot of guidance and advice at the time and one of the most common refrains I heard was that if you were going to be an author, you had to have a blog.
This is advice that I would now question. That is, I question the soundness of it unless you have the time, resources and willingness to put as much time into your blog as the rest of your writing. Ironically, while the blog may once have been a useful tool for marketing your brand, it now is as hard to get your blog recognized as it is your books.
Still, at the time, I thought it seemed like a good idea. But as I didn’t think an observational style blog could be a success for me, I thought that a blog instead could be a great way to introduce people to my writing, maybe to bring them around to buying a book or two from me on the side.
I had never been a fan of short stories but I devoted myself to this discipline and learned the craft of writing flash fiction as I went along this path. And I was surprised as much as anyone to find that I actually liked the form and found it to be a natural outlet for my abilities and narrative strengths. Writing these stories over the years for you has been educational for me but also a lot of fun.
I wanted to make sure I took a moment before the final story saw the light of day. I can’t say enough how grateful I am to all of you who have been checking out and enjoying these stories.
Note – this is excluding the guy who stole my work and published it as his own. That guy is an asshole.
Without you there on the other end to read my work, I’m pretty much nothing. This doesn’t work without you. Thank you for being a reader in this culture of easier digital options for entertainment. Thank you for being
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interested in a genre that has become less profitable over the years. But mostly, thank you for allowing my words to take up even a little of your overly crowded lives. Thank you for helping me make these memories.
Thank you.
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