Day One - Introduction

 

     Greetings!

    My name is Denis Baldwin. I'm an aspiring author out of Las Vegas, NV with my first novel "Inkwell" in a second draft state and making the rounds with a few of my beta readers before further edits. 

    I decided to start a blog because it was recommended to me in a "30 Day Platform" Challenge for authors that I found in the book "Guide to Literary Agents." The book itself has been a big help navigating the problem of what-to-do-next writers seem to have after they've written something. (Turns out the next step is finding an agent that is willing to represent my material.) As far as the blog goes, I'll maintain a Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday release format with topics ranging from my writing, my learning process (for anyone else who's in the early stages like myself), personal stuff, and creativity in general. I don't expect this to take off in any way, but it would be nice if one of my posts had a positive effect on someone. I intend to use this more as an actual personal blog that just happens to also be online for everyone to see.

    Like I said above, I need to find an agent and I'd like to set a timeline for myself: three months. I think that's realistic, right? I need to start writing out a query letter and doing some research on agents that represent crime fiction (think Godfather meets The Newsroom). Turns out, writing is a ton of work, quite a bit of it unrelated to the actual act of story writing. But! I also know that once the groundwork is done and I have that foundation, the support will be there going forward.

    Wish me luck!


                    -Denis Baldwin

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