Here is again Mr. Tom Wick, Esquire!

Hello again. Before I begin some of the more substantial posts I wanted to give a little more background on my journey as a writer.  The first memory I have of wanting to be a writer was when I was 15.  I am 31 now.  I dabbled in creative writing but of course school came first.  Same story in college, and of course school was even MORE important then because I has borrowed the GDP of a small country in order to go.

During my second year of law school I had an epiphany: I wasn’t learning anything. No, not like in college where I wasn’t learning anything USEFUL I wasn’t learning anything AT ALL. So, during lectures I would work on my first novel.

I was such a smug little bastard.  I thought I was in on some huge secret.  I would half listen while I half wrote and crowd around my monitor lest someone see my masterpiece before I was ready.  What I SHOULD HAVE done was do the reading on my own, not attended class, and instead spent my time in the library when I could have devoted my FULL attention to writing.  That’s also a format I am going to try and stick to, tell you guys what I did, and what it now looks like I should have done even though I have yet to reap any kind of success.

A lot of successful writers tell you how down and out they were when they started writing, then they worked hard, hit it big, and now they are living the good life.  I tend to think those are outliers.  I also think successful writers lie about how they became successful- it’s just another opportunity to tell a story for them.

In any event my story begins much different but hopefully ends the same.  Even when I first started even THINKING about writing I was already attending one of the best high schools in the nation, and by the time I had taken Serious steps toward writing a manuscript I was on my way to an ivy league law degree and could expect to make a six figure salary for the foreseeable future. I wrote in my spare time, even when I lost my job (my full time job at that point became finding another) have received a ton of rejections and now I am probably lower than I’ve ever been. But I still want to be a writer. I am still chugging along.