What I Write

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Thursday, May 21, 2020 – TaleWriter

COMMENT & QUOTE

Comment:

I like Westerns, and by that, I mean American “Old West” Westerns. It’s a time to write in—not just to write about. The Western is more than genre, it’s a style. Almost any genre can be written in the style of an American Western: Mystery, Thriller, Supernatural, Science Fiction, Romance, they all fit, they all work, and because they are more often than not based in our past, they don’t go flat with age.

I like to write “Traditional Westerns”—good guys against bad guys, cattle drives, bank and train robberies, even a little romance (as long as it doesn’t go too far)—but—I also like to mix genres, in particular Horror and Westerns. I’m working on a series of stories in a fictional place called, Shadow Valley, a mixed genre Horror-Western series of stories, and it is a lot of fun coming up with the characters that populate them.

Sometimes I feel like 90 percent or more of what I write needs to be edited via the delete button, and sometimes I know it does, but I keep plugging away because sometimes I get almost 10 percent of what I write, right . . . eventually.

—And so, I leave you with this—

Quote:

“In Hollywood, the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.”

~~ Will Rogers (1879—1935) ~~

Introduction

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Sunday, May 17, 2020 – TaleWriter

Comment & Quote

Comment:

My name is Jacob Bayne, and I’m a writer—a writer of fiction, usually. I have written a poem or two and I hope to again if the right words ever pop into my head, but for the most part, I tell stories.

I started this blog in or around early 2014 and I worked at it for a while and then less often, and then I ignored it completely. Now here I am trying again. I deleted all of my old posts, but I’m going to try and incorporate what I can of them into certain new posts. The frequency of my posts is yet to be determined, but I’d like to be able to get on a schedule of at least once a week.

Comment & Quote will be geared toward writers and readers, but I hope all who venture this way will find some measure of inspiration or a degree of worth for stopping by.

Writing is not a simple or easy thing. You have to have thick skin and a hard head. You have to be willing to learn, then learn some more, and continue to learn. You never know it all. But you can’t give up, because to give up is to lose.

…And so, I leave you with this…

Quote:

“He never knew when he was whipped . . . and so he never was.”

~~ Louis L’Amour (1908—1988) ~~