Whoever has taken the journey through the climbs and tumbles of storytelling can attest that the creator is NOT the only writer of that story. What I’m about to share may qualify me to some as a bizarre. mental case, but it would only be fair to give a portion of the writing credit of Extra Innings to the fictional characters themselves. Certainly, I created identical twins Jimmy & Billy McGee and all their family, friends and enemies, however, I’m sure that any writer would agree that after a while, the characters begin to tell the story themselves. After some initial personality and circumstance development has been established, a characters’ behaviors and reactions to incidents flow far to easily for my naked brain to deserve all the credit. At times, I do recall moments of writer’s cramp in terms of plot direction and development, but once each incident was etched into words, the reaction of each character involved was told by them specifically. This is particularly illustrated in Book 3 (“A Hero Among Thieves”) which includes poetry and music written by Billy while he was away at USAF Boot Camp and stationed overseas in Korea. I’d love to consider myself a gifted writer, but I must give a great deal of credit to the fascinating characters who live and lived through the pages of the Extra Innings Trilogy.
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Everything’s gonna be alright … everything’s gonna work out. Awesome advice for a guy turned down by literary agents and publishers in a quest to plant my flag on this planet. They always give the same excuse how in today’s shrunken economy they are unwilling to take on an unknown writer. Too bad I’m not a celebrity – right?
Anyway, my first book is called Extra Innings and the author is me … B W Gibson … and the more I examine it’s content and deliberate with close friends and colleagues, this 600+ page manuscript and its Young Adult target market are screaming for it to be divided into a TRILOGY. A summary of Extra Innings is now posted under my WRITINGS tab here on my site. Check it out!!
The best rewards in life come from achieving your goals and I’ve cast one helluva uphill climb for myself with Extra Innings. I am so passionate about its originality and the magnitude of its content that I am determined to see this story reach as broad a scope as possible.
All goals present challenges. For me, the supreme challenge of them all is Twitter. I’m brand new to using Twitter and I can’t figure out why we’re not clicking. It just ain’t happening between us right now. I can’t get into it. Even though, not a day goes by that my partner is not standing there reminding me to Tweet Tweet Tweet. Oh well, I know it’s ultimately up to me. So, my friends, wish me luck as I start this climb! May the story of twins Jimmy & Billy McGee help me along the way.