My Writing (1972 to present)

 

I started writing seriously in 1972, right after I received an honorable discharge from the US Navy and returned to college to finish my degree.

What I started writing was poems...  not sure why I began with poetry but I did.  What I would do is go to McDonalds and get a large cup of coffee (free refills), sit in a corner with a little notebook and begin writing about my thoughts putting it into a poetic rhythm, not trying to rhyme.  At th end of each month, I would put those pages in an envelope, label the month-year-amount.  

I gradually stopped doing this in 2009 when I started my blog and completed stopped doing this in 2012 when I started posting a poem each day.  Interestingly, when I thought about halting my morning writing routine, I had amassed over 42,000 poems.

In the 1970's I joined a local writer's club and began writing short stories along with my poems but my journey into short stories did not last long as I only wrote about 10/12 of them.

Around the 1980s, I joined LinkedIn and began posting essays and opinion articles.  When I left LinkedIn in the late 1990s earlier 2000s, I had managed to publish right around 1500 of these essays.  This achievement seemed rather important to me but I really did not do anything about it.

In 2015, my wife and I retired and I started writing novels.  By the end of this month, or ten years later, I have written 22 novels, each of which is over 100,000 words.  Totaling the word count, I have written over 2.200,000 words which is rather a remarkable achievement.

My Writing Totals:

42.000+ poems

1500 essays/opinion articles

22 Novels at 2,200,000+ words