Thus, this site has given me that opportunity
Below are some of the writings I have posted on this site along with some journal entries I will do periodically.
Be forewarned, this sailor drops a few f-bombs from time to time....so if offended easily, pass on...
Reality is only as brutal as you see.
-summer 2005
I've been writing all my life. For as long as I can remember. It's just one of those things I've always done. From the storytelling to abstract journal writing to songs and prose, I've just done it as long as I can rmemeber. I have stacks and stacks of journals, notebooks, song books, from all over covering all the different eras and epochs of my life.
I'm not saying I'm any good. Hell, most of the crap I read back is that...crap. But, it's been my most consistent outlet for creativity and emotion and whatever may be ailing me at that particular moment.
It's therapeutic and enjoyable and become more than just a hobby. It's a mission...
Over the last few years, I've started to share some of my work with friends, family, acquaintances, and beyond and have gotten some cool, positive feedback.
"You should do this for a living..." I keep hearing. However, freelance writing is a tough, poverty ridden lifestyle that I, with two children, can't afford to afford. My job is steady work, pays the bills, and supports the little ones...
But I keep on...
I've gotten a bunch of short pieces compiled that I want to release as a chapbook collection called "The Third Summer." It's a collection of journal entries, stories, and tales from my third summer on the beach in Willoughby in 2005. It's a period where I was writing a great deal more than usual and produced a high number of pieces, the most since my days of working on the university newspaper in Missouri.
I've continued to fill journals, more intermittently now, and started a novel last year, that I've recently started working on again.
The novel is a fiction-based on reality kind of piece, collecting stories and experiences over my last five years living on this peninsula in Virginia. It's going to be a five-act story, where each act is a month of summer, from May to September, of course with an epilogue in October...
This is my attempt at the "first great" novel, my attempt at a "The Rum Diary" kind of piece, which is my inspiration. Old Uncle Hunter is hopefully looking down proudly one me.
So welcome to my words and enjoy your visit and reads...I hope some of my stories entertain you and I would love to hear your feedback about what you read.
The more I write, the more I will add, and I'll be digging through some old journals as well, hopefully finding many lost gems I'd forgotten about from days passed.
Again, welcome
