This is where I am supposed to talk about myself.  I have been a member of Author's Den for over a year, and a lot of writers and hopefully readers come to this site to learn a little bit about the authors...often in an act of self promotion to try to sell their works. 

I had thought this was what I was supposed to do.  I had thought this was the best way to get the reader to want to read my work.  I soon discovered, that is wrong.  A writer's goal should be to inform, to persuade, or to entertain.  However, what I had found, even through some of the writer's groups I have been associated with, is there is this general feeling if one follows a formula, they will produce a work that readers will flock to, that publishers will want.

I am against type...I want to make the reader feel...to think...to challenge their way of thinking.  The reader should know what they are looking for and read to better themselves, relate to an experience, to realize that life is only as incredible as they make it.

I am living proof that someone can come from absolutely nothing, out of nowhere to be all around the world and to live a purposeful life.  I have heard from many, "I could never do what you are doing."  To them, I tell them you are absolutely correct.  You can't, because you already tell me you can't do it.  Whatever you say you can or can't do is yours to claim.  You have created the life you have right now.

So what is my purpose on Author's Den?  Is it just to sell you a book?  To try to convince you that I am a genuine writer, author and poet?  The only person I had to convince was myself.  I am not trying to convince you.  I have already done it.  I have published under various means and ways, and it's not about making money.  It is about creating art.  It is about living art.  It is about trying to recover the greatness that can be instilled in a complete body of work.

It is about my willing to just simply do what everyone says cannot be done.

Where I was born, where I grew up, where I am from...it is not relevant.  Where I have been, what I have done...that also is meaningless.  What matters is right now.  

What I can tell you is too many have given up hope.  They have given up dreams.  They look at the world and say 'why bother?'  If you give up...you forfeit the future you could have.  The future you should have.  

I am a writer.   I am human.  I will die.

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