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30 people a week
Hi everyone,
The statistics for the Johnny B. Fast web site now say that 30 unique visitors are going to www.JohnnyBFast.com every week.
I'm not sure if that's a lot or not, but I figured I would try and create something for those 30 people (and you) to read on a weekly basis (if I can help it...sometimes the story takes a lot of my time).
I'll try and update this blog every Friday, so if a Friday comes and I haven't done it, you can say: "Hey, you didn't write the blog this week!" And get very, very mad.
I'm always open to questions and feedback, so if anyone wants to know anything: from how I write, to where I get my ideas, to what keeps me writing, etc...everything except questions about plot...feel free to ask and I'll answer.
...Oh, and try to become a follower of the blog. I've got one entire follower so far, and while I think that's really cool, I also think he might need a little company.
So I guess I should think of something to say for this week other than how I'm going to try and think of something to say on a weekly basis:
Why I started writing Johnny B. Fast:
When I was a student teacher in a grade 6 classroom part of the day's activities was reading to the class. I remember I would sit up at the front, reading from the pages of a certain unknown book. The kids liked it, but I couldn't help thinking how dated and boring it felt.
They liked it, but they didn't LOVE it.
I'd been writing screenplays for the past 15 years, I'd never tried to write a novel before (I'm not counting the very first thing I ever wrote in my life which, while falling under the category of novel, definitely didn't belong there). But I thought I could do something better than that boring and dated book...
But what would I write?
Screenplays were very different than novels.
Would I be able to write a novel?
Would kids young and old want to read it?
And who were those Johnny B. Fast and Agent Seventy-Seven characters that kept banging around the inside of my head?
Tom
The statistics for the Johnny B. Fast web site now say that 30 unique visitors are going to www.JohnnyBFast.com every week.
I'm not sure if that's a lot or not, but I figured I would try and create something for those 30 people (and you) to read on a weekly basis (if I can help it...sometimes the story takes a lot of my time).
I'll try and update this blog every Friday, so if a Friday comes and I haven't done it, you can say: "Hey, you didn't write the blog this week!" And get very, very mad.
I'm always open to questions and feedback, so if anyone wants to know anything: from how I write, to where I get my ideas, to what keeps me writing, etc...everything except questions about plot...feel free to ask and I'll answer.
...Oh, and try to become a follower of the blog. I've got one entire follower so far, and while I think that's really cool, I also think he might need a little company.
So I guess I should think of something to say for this week other than how I'm going to try and think of something to say on a weekly basis:
Why I started writing Johnny B. Fast:
When I was a student teacher in a grade 6 classroom part of the day's activities was reading to the class. I remember I would sit up at the front, reading from the pages of a certain unknown book. The kids liked it, but I couldn't help thinking how dated and boring it felt.
They liked it, but they didn't LOVE it.
I'd been writing screenplays for the past 15 years, I'd never tried to write a novel before (I'm not counting the very first thing I ever wrote in my life which, while falling under the category of novel, definitely didn't belong there). But I thought I could do something better than that boring and dated book...
But what would I write?
Screenplays were very different than novels.
Would I be able to write a novel?
Would kids young and old want to read it?
And who were those Johnny B. Fast and Agent Seventy-Seven characters that kept banging around the inside of my head?
Tom
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