I’m not doing well folks. I’ve had a series of financial and career (or lack thereof) humiliations that are still so traumatically fresh I can’t even blog about them. They are also so outlandish that to describe them would likely lead to other specifics being known about my life that I want to keep private. So I turn to my shame diary. I won’t tell you what’s in it but I will tell you what it is, how to use it and how to tell if you need it.

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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.

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Well it’s June 14.  It’ll be the 4th of July before we know it.  Time for that promised Summer series SO without further ado I present Mr. Thomas Wick!

So Benito said I needed an image/signature so I went with the most cliche one I could find.  Perhaps the problem with my writing, see I am an unpublished author, have been since 2007.  My goal with this series is to let aspiring authors know what it’s like out here, not from the vantage point you normall hear from, the small minority of successful writers, but from guys like me.

I probably have alot in common with a lot of you.  I am up to my eyeballs in student debt, I have a stack of academic credentials I’ve never used, and I am constantly unemployed or underemployed.  Between that and being a failed writer I get DOUBLE the rejections.  My self-esteem is at an all-time high.  Please read for my initial writing experiences and a few tips…not that I am really in the position to give any.  This first entry is going to be a sort of overview/summary of what I’ve done and where I am.

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