Releasing the Writer in Me

We are all storytellers. There is in each of us, at least one good story that needs to be told, which essentially makes every one of us a story teller in our own right. The only difference is that some of us actively pursue being a writer while many simply don’t bother. They just go on to different career paths, not thinking that putting pen to paper, or finger to keyboard in a more modern sense, would be worth pursuing as a living.

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But the innate storytelling ability that we all have certainly surfaces from time to time, in its own unique ways. It might take the form of simply relating a story about our own selves to someone else who might be close to us. Or we could also write about a story that is completely fictional, something that we made up. That is when the storyteller or more specifically the writer in us is released. I certainly know that because that is what happened to me.

I am a writer who took what I would call a progressive path to my present type of work. This is what I mean by that, I actually started out in school, writing for the school paper in high school, and then continuing that in college where I was actually studying history. After graduating from college, I pursued any writing job that I could find my way. My first job that allowed me to do any kind of writing at all was as a greeting card writer. It was a relatively easy job for me, and under the circumstances then, it paid me well enough.

Then I got another writing job, which is almost the opposite of my first one as I became an obituary writer for one of the leading broadsheets. Then I finally got a big break as I was able to penetrate the comic book industry. I became a comic book writer and I earned extremely good money compared to my previous jobs. After becoming successful in that field, I set my sights to becoming an even more serious storyteller.

I am presently pursuing a higher literary calling, as I am moving into being a writer of literary fiction. Now this is a real challenge because it is considered to be the most serious form of literature there is. Its literary merit is the highest, and it is not something that is easy to do, especially when compared to the writing I did in the past. I am ready for the challenge though, and I am in fact in the process of writing my first literary novel. I consider it releasing the real writer in me and is the high point of my career.