get something published

my dad gave me a book about how to make good characters, and I’ve been reading it, and doing as much of the activities as I can. I think it’s really helping, and what is more important to a story than the characters? I hope this helps me write a truely captivating story.

I have taken the first step. I came up with what I think might be a good story, and I have started writting it. I may be starting too big. My dad started out with short stories on web zins, and is just now starting to get small books published. I’ll see where this takes me, though.

I love to write. My mom says I’ve been writing ever since they taught me how. I have a box full of spiral notebooks with stories I wrote growing up. Strangely, however, I have never gotten anything published. I want to come up with a good storie, and have it published. That would make me so proud of myself.

I got of my photographs published in my universities magazine.

I got a legal article published in a journal. It was on a topic that I had no previous knowledge of, but it was only a short “introduction to” type article so it only took me about a week to research and write (around my other work). Unfortunately it got published under my boss’ name so I didn’t get to see my name in print, but was satisfying to see my article in a proper journal.

I’m not interested in self-publishing, as I feel I would be forcing myself upon others. I need some kind of screen so I can see if I’m going in the right direction, just how many notes I’m hitting, and if someone actually enjoys what I do enough to print it on dead pulp and maybe even pay me for it.

I’ve been writing for quite a bit and I want to publish something, but I feel real uneasy about it. Is my stuff any good? Am I a good writer? Or have I wasted my time?

Yet I’ll never know if I keep hoarding all my stuff to myself, convincing myself through this one flaw or this ugly spot that I’ve missed that it’s not ready yet, and that I should just put it away and forget about it.

I’m perplexed.

I do have a few poems that have been published, but I want to publish an opinion piece in a magazine or journal :]

I’m not giving up…but I don’t exactly want to do this anymore. I’ve realized that I write for myself, I don’t need the world to see it. I’ll share it, but I don’t need the ‘satisfaction’ of getting published. I am content.

I’ve had two poems published =]