As we enter Fall, I’m reflecting on how much fun I had at the Mango Writers Conference.
Thanks Ricki and Jeff and the committee for all your hard work.
I’m also looking forward to sitting in the SFWA booth at the Miami Book Fair.
Where I’m hoping to sell a few books and make a few new friends.
And since I’m in a reflecting mood, I decided to scan my 207 blogs in the Times of Israel.Now that’s one hellava lot of blogs. And as I scanned, I realized that I wear many writer hats as a blogger.
I’m a poet, satirist, historian, humorist, book reviewer, short story writer, and an author of children’s stories.
Please don’t ask me how good am I at any of those genres.
Only my readers know.
But I do try.
So here’s my Fall message:
Don’t hold yourself back as a writer.
Try different genres.
Don’t restrict yourself to one flavor of ice cream.
Taste a few different flavors.
Dive into unknown writing waters and swim onto unknown novelistic beaches.
Be brave!
Experiment.
Flex the muscles on the writer’s side of your brain
What is the worse that can happen?
No one has ever died of writing a bad poem.
Have fun!
Be all you can be.
Trite but I still love it.
Life is too short not to try a few new genres.
So please remember: keep writing, keep publishing, try something new and most importantly be creative.
