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The writer John Migacz was born in a humble computer room amidst the mind-numbing whine of hard drives and cooling fans.
Tossing his latest purchase from “Borders” down with disgust, he shouted to the machine infested room – “What crap! What drivel! I can probably do better!”
He halted his tirade. Can I do better? The idea floated upward from the bubbling cauldron of creative confusion that was John’s mind as did the cry: “I certainly can’t do worse!” So with fingers dripping icicles from the frozen wind of an air-conditioning unit dialed down to the ‘meat locker’ setting, he started typing.
Lacking the mental acuity to perhaps first try his hand at a short story or two, John jumped head-first into pounding out a novel. Six months and 160,000 words later, “The Dieya Chronicles – Incident on Ravar” was finished.
Unfortunately, it was over a year later that he discovered what “Point of View” was. Through the wedge driven in by POV poured its accomplices: show-don’t-tell, attribute tags, misplaced modifiers, protagonist, concise description, and a gut-churning horde of others.
After joining writers groups, attending writer’s conferences and seminars, it was back to the keyboard for John. With four years of study and dozens of short stories and essays to build on, he once again opened the Dieya Chronicles. “What crap! What drivel!” he cried. “I can do better!”
And he has.
