I’ve been thinking about this for quite some time. Let’s start out by stating that I’ve published to date:
Innocent Until Proven Guilty
Thompson’s Bounty
Leader of the Losers
Absent Until Proven Guilty
Destinty
Deadly Deceptions
Darkened Passages (short stories)
The Teddy Bear Conspiracy
The Ameriad
A Season of Kings
The Deck Const: Shadows and Rumors
With that selection of novels, one would think that I’ve figured out how to write. But one thing has always suggested that having a volume of writing does not equal quality writing. And one thing I took home from Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is that what I should be achieving when writing a novel is to reach a level where the next novel learns from the education put forth from the previous novel. In other words, if I write a novel, I need to learn all of the lessons from that novel so the next one becomes even better.
So, to explore this area of learning from my writing, I’ve applied to an MFA course in writing to see if I can better my writing and pick up skills I did not know I might need. Other people probably think I am wasting my time and my money, but where were those people when I bought the Playstation, Playstation II, Playstation III, the Xbox One and the Xbox Series X, all of which I have NEVER played.