Pictured above is the Brother Word Processor that introduced me to modern typing technology. It was a revelation, since my first typewriter was an old Royal pound-the-keys-hard machine that wore the fingerprints off both hands. Some writers of habit never did take up word processing, and I admit to being a hard sell myself, but somewhere along the way, I saw the benefits and took up the practices of desktop publishing and self-publishing. Of course, computers were the next game changers, and I made myself learn a little about those, too!
Producing my own short stories and novelettes and other products has occupied me (through my own established BAT Publishing) for a major portion of my life. While “Seawind” — see the blog “My Writing Life Xposed” — always was my main project, other tasty tidbits cried out from somewhere inside me to be created and fixated on paper. And I always obliged my gut instincts.
The following — “Cry Wolf” — is one of my short story efforts that let’s animals do the talking, a method of story telling of which I became fond at an early stage of my writing endeavors. (For more on that method, enjoy my blog “Horses and Animals Are Talkin”.)
***** Cry Wolf:
The End
Over the years, I found much satisfaction in producing my own work, as self-publishing allowed me to choose my own markets, work at my own deadlines, and freely share information with other writers and artists, notably across the Internet.
How does your writing garden grow?
+++++Credit: Photo and Story from the personal and copyrighted collection of Barbara Anne Helberg
+++++(Note: Scanning of two originally typed papers was used to reproduce “Cry Wolf” for this blog post.) bah
+++++The author’s short story Roughcraft ArtWork creations can be discovered at “Short Stories and Story Art “.
