The personal journey of Bryan the Writer

In this episode I am going to talk a little about the big influences in my writing life and how I got to where I am now.

Good Afternoon good people of the podcast world, I am your host, Bryan and before I get too far into this, I want to make sure and send a shout out to all of the mother’s out there. This is Mother’s day weekend so remember to call your mother, mother type equivalents, and mother analogues. If you can’t be with them, send them a virtual CORONA hug. 

In this podcast we are going to delve into my own personal writing journey.

I have oft gained some very irritate glances in high school English classes when I said in front of a room of impressionable young people that there is absolutely nothing they can do to become creative writers in school. While I mean this statement, left to its own devices, it gets misconstrued.

I truly believe in education. But I truly do believe that schools only teach us how to form decent sentences and proper paragraphs. In no way do schools teach you how to think and feel about the world around you. Only experience can do that.

It is life that makes us good story tellers and writers. It is that experiences that I call up when I am trying to write how a person thinks and feels. If I hadn’t had experiences, it would make it impossible for me to write that aspect of a story. 

That is not to say you can’t write as a young person, but as you get older and have more life experience, you become a better story teller.

I was always a creative kid and that got me into trouble. I was considered unusual as a child. So much so that my parents and teachers had me go visit the school councilor twice a week for thirty minutes at a time. 

Mrs. Sone, I think her name was. Nice lady and actually I liked going to see her. Smoked way too much and her breath smelled like what I imagine the mythical Kraken’s breath smelled like. It think it is Master Gibbs in the Pirates of the Caribbean movie that says it reeks with the smell of a thousand rotting corpses. Yeah, her breath was amazingly bad.

But she sat me down and gave me the opportunity to write for the first time. Schools can be problematic for budding writers. Look they tell you to write and they want you to write, but only what they think you should write, for how long they proscribe, and when you should write. 

Don’t get the wrong idea here. I am not anti-teacher at all. They have one of the hardest jobs on the planet which is made far more difficult by their dark overlords in school administration, but that is another discussion for another time. But they do have to stay within the strict cinctures of their pre-programmed schedules. They have a tough job. And they had to teach my kids! 

I mention the name of Ronald Malfi in the podcast as being one of those authors I admire. Find out more about him here. http://ronmalfi.com/

For more information about Bryan the Writer:

www.Bryannowak.com 

https://www.amazon.com/Bryan-Nowak/e/B018GX2I20

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