Comments - Ex-FBI Agent & Chicago Cop: Are You A Writer? - CrimeSpace2024-03-28T09:11:35Zhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=537324%3ABlogPost%3A278104&xn_auth=noJust joined you on your blog.…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2011-05-21:537324:Comment:2907172011-05-21T22:51:07.080ZMark Younghttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/MarkYoung
Just joined you on your blog. Look forward to your posts.
Just joined you on your blog. Look forward to your posts. Mark, one word . . . Sweet! …tag:crimespace.ning.com,2011-05-21:537324:Comment:2907132011-05-21T22:22:11.721ZMary McFarlandhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/MaryMcFarland
<p>Mark, one word . . . Sweet! </p>
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<p>Thanks. I know many of us here on CS are working toward that goal (getting published), but we're all writers, right? </p>
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<p>I've connected via my email link to Hook 'em and Crook 'em (delightful blog title by the way). I THINK I'm a follower now (will double check). Join me on my blog, Mark. I'm launching it, but it's got plenty of value added right now for guys like you who're already published. My blog's goals are twofold: 1)…</p>
<p>Mark, one word . . . Sweet! </p>
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<p>Thanks. I know many of us here on CS are working toward that goal (getting published), but we're all writers, right? </p>
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<p>I've connected via my email link to Hook 'em and Crook 'em (delightful blog title by the way). I THINK I'm a follower now (will double check). Join me on my blog, Mark. I'm launching it, but it's got plenty of value added right now for guys like you who're already published. My blog's goals are twofold: 1) to write analytic reviews (no fluff) that help us all understand how we write and, how better to do so, and; 2) to connect ex-law enforcement individuals with mystery and suspense writers who need edits of their manuscripts. Here's the link. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.buzzardbone.blogspot.com">http://www.buzzardbone.blogspot.com</a> Thanks. </p> Great point, Mary. So many pe…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2011-05-21:537324:Comment:2906972011-05-21T21:54:10.073ZMark Younghttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/MarkYoung
Great point, Mary. So many people equate being a writer with being published. One of the first comments they make, after learning you are a writer, is: Have I read any of your novels? The assumption is that one can not be one without the other. It is apparent you have taken the time to become a writer worth publishing.
Great point, Mary. So many people equate being a writer with being published. One of the first comments they make, after learning you are a writer, is: Have I read any of your novels? The assumption is that one can not be one without the other. It is apparent you have taken the time to become a writer worth publishing. One day, someone asked me wha…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2011-05-21:537324:Comment:2906612011-05-21T17:56:22.575ZMary McFarlandhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/MaryMcFarland
One day, someone asked me what I do. What I DO? I used to hem-haw around. Uh . . . I teach Composition, uh . . . I . . . uh. Ya know? Then one day, I said. I'm a writer. It came out easy and smooth: I had no doubt about it and I LIKED the way it rolled off my tongue. Of course, having identified myself to myself, as well as the person who'd asked, I realized I'd placed myself in the company of some of the most talented personages on the planet, so I think part of my prior reluctance to…
One day, someone asked me what I do. What I DO? I used to hem-haw around. Uh . . . I teach Composition, uh . . . I . . . uh. Ya know? Then one day, I said. I'm a writer. It came out easy and smooth: I had no doubt about it and I LIKED the way it rolled off my tongue. Of course, having identified myself to myself, as well as the person who'd asked, I realized I'd placed myself in the company of some of the most talented personages on the planet, so I think part of my prior reluctance to admit being a writer was a fear of being misclassified as someone who was published. Not . . . NOT the same thing. You can be pub'd I realized, and NOT be a writer. It's taken me years of very hard work to understand why I think of myself as a writer, and it has nothing to do with being pub'd. I've toughed out and completed my first novel, a Golden Pen winner (3rd place, romantic suspense, 2010), and then the second . . . just finished and more lined up to write. I want to get published, and I'm sure I will. However, being a writer, for me at least, is knowing that doing anything other than writing would make life not worth living. Every day, I have to write, and that defines me.