A Writer’s Journey

My first blog post. How exciting.

Writing about writing is surreal. There’s a famous Norman Rockwell painting where he’s seated, brush in hand, looking in a mirror, painting himself.

It’s a painting about painting.

This is the first book in years I’ve seriously and consistently worked on for tens of thousands of words. Looking back 8 weeks it seemed such a daunting task—writing an 80,000 word book! Do you have any idea how long that is? Very. Seriously, it’s a lot of written language. And I only started in January. There’s something remarkable about crafting a novel out of imagination and thin air. It’s a pretty cool process.

I’ll have more to say tomorrow. I plan to write my blogs over several days during the week then publish them on Friday each week. Weekly is about all I have bandwidth for at this point.

It works.

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I now have my website and social media up and running. You can find me on Instagram at loganhbrand.author. I’ll post my FB page soon. :)

I still work full-time and enjoy what I do for a living. Honestly, I love writing more and I’d love to earn sufficient to care for my family on the royalties of my books (when I have books that is). The likelihood of that is like hitting a million dollar jackpot in Vegas. I believe I can do it over the next several years. The writing part, not the jackpot.

I have a lot to say and dammit… I’m going to say it.

There.

I’ve been averaging 416 words a day. At this rate it’ll be July before I finish. I intend to be done in June. Have to kick up my average by another 150 words. Tough numbers to hit when you work full-time and have a family with a little. Only 18 summers.

Easy peasy.