How I got started . . .
I had promised myself I’d be published by a certain age – an age I’d rather not publish! Needless to say, that year came . . . and went . . . and I still not only wasn’t published, but hadn’t even finished anything. That same year I was sitting on my couch reading (surprise!) and thought to myself “this book is crap! total crap! I wrote better than this in 8th grade!” It wasn’t really snobbery on my part. The book was some seriously bad . . . crap.
But these two things combined, like two sticks in the hands of a boy scout . . . and it sparked. I didn’t have to be brilliant. I didn’t have to write the ‘great american novel’. I only had to do a few things: 1) Finish! 2) Be better than he-whom-I-won’t-name-publicly. 3) Persist.
As we go along here, Eli and I will tell you how I/we did it . . .
-AJ-
