Could a Blogger ever become a published Author?
I’ve become fascinated with blogging. I blog all the time, I write for a bunch of websites everyday at my work, then when I go home, I write some more. Maybe I’ve found my calling in life after all – writing. I love writing about everything from gaming, wrestling and football, to things about technology, gadgets, health, politics and business. Actually, I write so much these days that I’ve found myself considering writing that book I’ve been promising myself for years…
But where to start? How do you even go about writing a book? I’ve never had any formal training in writing, and I received a fail for my higher English (too many parties, not enough study), and take one quick look around any of the major book retailers and you see pages upon pages of words that presumably each author has poured his heart and soul into. How can I possibly compete? The pure, and almost sad, fact of the matter, is that could a semi-decent blogger ever become a published author?
Wouldn’t it to be awesome to be the next JK Rowling, Terry Pratchet or Steven King? The problem is, in my opinion, is that as a reader, I struggle to find anything I’m looking for in book shops. I know the authors I enjoy reading, and find it difficult to accept a new name, and characters I don’t know. I think maybe films are killing books somewhat. The Lord of the Rings movies by Peter Jackson, vastly improved sales of the trio of books the films were based on. Had these films never appeared, the majority of people would still assume it was books for nerds. The same goes for comic-based movies – yes, generally they suck beyond reproach, but they have taken the elite feel from dorky comic book readers, and dragged their beloved ‘secret’ into the limelight.
Maybe the answer is to do a film based on a book, then when enough people know about it, I could write a new version, or a prequel, a la George “the perpetual tamperer” Lucas, and his Star Wars murdering.
Maybe I should dedicate my literary career to an in-depth report into why pigs can’t look up, or I could do a study on the damage that ABBA did to the world, during their heyday. Does anyone have any suggestions? Or have any of you tried to write a book and failed miserably? Would I be wasting my time to start writing something now, i mean i’m just a blogger…
