Origins Blogfest

Today's the day some 180+ of us bloggers tell the world how/why/when we got into writing. Whew. That's A LOT of people!

Thanks to DL Hammons for thinking this bad boy up! Oh, and Matthew MacNish, Katie Mills (aka Creepy Query Girl) and Alex Cavanaugh.

I've actually talked about this once on my blog before (like waaaay long ago when I first started this blog). You can find the original post here. 

That post is long if you want to get a deeper look into my mush. I mean, my brain. Here's a shorter version:

HOW I, JD, GOT INTO WRITING

Three years ago I watched a movie

I thought it was sort of groovy

After learning it had started as a book I said, "Hey! I can do that!"

So I put on my thinking cap and went up to bat 

Me and "reading" books weren't friends you see

So I had a crazy uphill battle to beat

So my first book was awful and full of crap

But I knew I'd get better the more I went to bat

I found that writing was akin to breathing

If I had to stop, I'd rather face a lifetime of teething

To keep me sane I wrote, wrote, wrote, and wrote

Knowing that somehow, someday, I'd catch that "from writer to author" boat.

After three years, 

Lots of tears,

A crit partner who kept me going with her cheers,
And several kegs of beer ...
Er, wait ... I don't drink.
And I just ran out of rhyming words.
Argh.

Darn poems.

So there you have it! Kind of. Mostly. Not really. *snicker* 

A movie changed my life forever. The book changed it even more. And then I started on a path that I couldn't stop even if I'd wanted to. And I love every second of it. Writing for me is like breathing. And I never intend to stop. 

Cheers

~JD