September 28, 2015
Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of “In The Demon’s Head” When I went to write this post, I got horribly confused because I didn’t know what the hell was going on with my computer and the list of dates and things that were running through it. Once I got that figured out I was able to sit down and write this post. Now, what is this post about you may ask. It’s simple, this post is about the journey that took me into a passion that always kind of burned, but it took someone pulling it out of me.
If you’re reading this, or have been a fan of mine. I don’t count you among this list. What I mean is that I really hate most stupid people. Let’s face it this country is full of them. Every day in retail you run into someone who makes you wonder why in the hell their father’s didn’t pull out and shoot them into the wall. I mean there are some people that I just don’t feel should exist and I’ve met most of them while working in retail.
I also hate being directed and told how and when to do things. It’s a nature of the beast that you have to deal with when you work in the real world. For the most part, I’ve managed to work well with people. Especially, people who I deemed shouldn’t have a place of authority. Let’s get this cleared up as well. I don’t have a problem with authority, I have a problem with stupid authority.
Both of these things came together and I realized that I can’t work in the real world until I’m 60 and retire. It’s a rat race that I have no constant urge to run for the rest of my life.
My Wife was the key
Our first Christmas together I wrote her a small collection of stuff. Mainly, because I didn’t know what to buy her and didn’t know her well enough to really go in depth Christmas shopping. I presented it to her in a McDonalds parking lot one night. She read it and proceeded to ask me. “Why didn’t you pursue this as a career?”
I didn’t have an answer. Writing was always something I did to express myself but I never thought really hard that it could be much of anything other then that. It was at that moment that I really started to think that there could be something for me in terms of writing.
Shortly there after we moved into an apartment in Bland. I didn’t have a job and couldn’t find one that I was able to hold down. I started to writing. I wrote feverishly for a while. By the end of the summer of 2012 I had a collection of short stories and poetry. I knew when I sat down to work on it that I didn’t think it would sell well due to the nature of that kind of work.
Then I hit a Slump…
Two Years of Downhill
I wrote two novellas and another smaller collection that I ended up publishing through Amazon and Smashwords over the next year and a half. I didn’t expect much mainly because no one knew who I was, which I understood. That, and I didn’t apply myself to the art of writing as much as I should have.
Hell outside of this blog I don’t know how often I really sat and worked on much of anything. I wrote down a few ideas, I wrote a couple of short stories. But really, I didn’t do much. It was because in my head I continued to say, I’ll wait til tomorrow, I’ll wait until I’m able to work full time, this bullshit, that bullshit, it just continued on down the line. I didn’t try.
In 20113 I had 7 jobs. I either got fired or quit jobs for one reason or another. Most of it was because I hated what I was doing. I ended the year working for McDonalds again. As a history lesson, this was the first job I ever had, and I quit after four years due to how I felt about the management practices.
Either way, about a year and a half into this stint with the company I went into work, I was working on their grill and I had an epiphany. I realized that if I didn’t do something with my life, I would be in this same positon in life a year from now. I was angry and realized that at that moment I needed to make a change.
I decided that I was going to start working my ass off… let’s look at the results.
In The Last Year…
I’ve finished 3 novels. I’m well on the way to editing all three of them and getting them set up for publication. I’m very excited where I’m at in life as far as it goes. Now, if I can only get the books to sell that would be the ultimate end goal.
In the next year, I intend to release three new novels. Possibly a novella. Depends on when I finally sit down to write it and a few other things. It’s going to be a very active year for me and I can’t wait for you guys to see everything. If there’s anything I’ve learned in the last three years, is that’s I love to work with words. I might not have the widest vocabulary, and I might not be the most eloquent of individuals. I do however house a wide imagination. I enjoy the thrill of telling stories, and I’ve loved seeing some of the people’s reactions who have read my stuff.
I can only hope that the world will enjoy the gift as much as I do.
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Until the next time you want to take a trip through the gates of hell, and into the demon’s head, I’m Kyle Robinson wishing you a safe