@SharonBergAuthor @orionkidder @bookstodon Totally agree - I'm 68 too :-) Though I look at some of the stories I wrote when I was in my 20's and 30's and I cringe :-) I like to think my writing's improved a lot since then 🙂

@winonakent @orionkidder @bookstodon Yes, I didn't take what I wrote at 19 & leave it alone. I worked it over greatly. But the general gist of the #story was the same, fleshed out. I think that #storytelling is an art that starts at a young age. A child notices how the parts of a story go together when they listen to their parents or grandparents, & then as they grow they improve upon both their oral & their #writing skills. I decided way early on I would be a #writer.
#amwriting #writing

@SharonBergAuthor @orionkidder @bookstodon The same with me - I used to draw pictures before I'd actually learned how to spell, and those pictures were the stories I told to myself. I was always a storyteller - I wrote my first "novel" when I was 12 and I used to hand out copies of the chapters to my classmates at school. Never finished the novel - had a great setup with my MC kidnapped and stashed in the hold of a freighter bound for England. Never worked out what happened next LOL

@winonakent @orionkidder @bookstodon I feel there are many things like this that are common to at least a good number of #writers . You and I seem to have a lot in common, besides our age. Then again, perhaps growing up in the time that we did has molded us somewhat. We have already seen such huge changes to the world, it isn't hard to imagine a different ( #story ) world. #amwriting #writing #writingcommunity #fiction #pantser

@SharonBergAuthor @orionkidder @bookstodon So so true. When I first started writing, we were encouraged NOT to write about Canada, plus it was tough to even break into the industry back in the 1970s and early 80s. The publishing landscape has changed so much since then. True, we have self-publishing - which is easy. It's the marketing part that's the challenge now. You definitely need a little bit of money for advertising / PR. Tough when you're on a tight budget.

@winonakent @SharonBergAuthor @orionkidder @bookstodon the marketing part is why the publishing landscape is so tough. The big guys don't get it any better than we do

@patricia_rice @SharonBergAuthor @orionkidder @bookstodon And more and more, the authors with traditional publishers are asked to shoulder some of the marketing part themselves - and pay for launches, etc.