Dateline 8-10-2017

Alright, now that everything is back to normal, it may be time to revisit/restate my intentions with this site as I feel the need to remind myself or anyone else who stumbles onto this site what I am trying to accomplish and why there might be times where the quality of my work might fall short of what a pro would put out to the world.

First and foremost this site was initially started as a ten-year project in my effort to transition out of screenwriting and into standard prose. Though some might think that writing is writing, when one solely sticks to a single writing style for over two decades, one can end up with habits and practices that don't translate as easily as you might think into other writing styles.

For example, when it comes to screenwriting you can only write what will literally be seen on the screen. Flowery language is discouraged and dialog is simply stated without the ability to delve into what is going on in the characters head, making a screenplay much more sterile and limited as to what you are trying to express.

Not only am I trying to practice in my efforts to transition out of writing for the screen and into writing standard prose, up until I started this site, most of my writing ended up in drawers waiting for a second draft. This site not only allows me an outlet to practice my new style of writing on a daily basis, but it also allows me a medium to share these daily efforts with the rest of the world.

Sure, I may only get a couple dozen readers on any given day, but these readers are finding my site organically as I do absolutely zero work when it comes to marketing. This is the biggest thing that I have to keep reminding myself, though my "rating" might be low, this is mainly due to the fact that I'm still in practice mode and I love whoever finds this interesting but my content is still not consistent enough to put extra money that I just don't have into promoting a site that itself is a first draft that might never get rewritten.

Don't get me wrong, when I say this site isn't worth promoting it's not that I feel the work is bad but I now have myself on a self-imposed schedule where I publish two posts a day while working random task jobs in my efforts to finance my minimalist life.

Between the fact that I am prolific, the lacking time and my dyslexia I fear that if I promoted this as the next big thing, all the typos would make me look like a joke, so I almost prefer that people find me naturally at this point because if anyone does find this page and opts to come back then they must be a genuine fan.

Ideally, I would love for a small group of readers that fit the above description. This would mean that when I do finally start to publish the screenplays that I am adapting to be novels, I'd already have a fan base that is used to my style and tone, making for an easy transition, as it's always been my dream to have a hand full of people who really get what I'm going for to be a fan of my work over having mass appeal.

Alright, I think that covers most of the things that I wanted to get off my head, now it's time to get to work watching TV in order to get caught up and move on to the next part of the plan. As always, I'll check in with how things turned out when I publish tomorrow's post.

Talk to you then,

The Wicker Breaker