Dear Dean Magazine - Issue 2

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MY WRITING JOURNEY H O W I T A L L S T A R T E D . Sharing my writing journey to encourage you if you wish to write or do that thing you can do. My friend Katya Juliet @44for4moreblog gifted me a blog for my 50th bday & told me to write weekly & she’d manage blog. She designed it and 7.5 years later still runs it and I still write weekly blogs. She gave it as a gift & distraction from my divorce. So I did it. I post every Wednesday or so and have for these 7 years. I’m not a trained writer and you may know I dropped out of HS so thankfully my grade school teachers taught me something about words . Once the blog was going well I decided to write a book. The audacity to stretch one’s talents is the greatest audacity of all. Found my editor from visiting my local library & she’s still my primary editor & writer development helper. This is my first book. On kindle & Amazon. It’s beautifully written, edited, designed by “my team.” Why not write a novel then? I asked myself. So I did, and surprisingly it was “rather easy” to do, until said editor chopped it up & sent me back to my laptop. I got it together though, and it turned out fabulous, sad, thrilling, & cathartic for readers and…me. Oh, it got hate, too. The good reviews, my love of writing, and encouragement from my team and friends, inspired me to write the prequel to BLM-PD and set in same world. Monuments: A Deadly Day at Jefferson Park includes a few of the beloved characters from BLM-PD, but this time tackled confederate monuments and their prevalence in the nation. The novel is violent and satisfying. My next try was to take stories I’d written over the past seven years and consolidate them into a story collection. My first attempts at sci-fi, horror, satire, futurist, absurdity, urban horror. I also made all seven stories an individual E-book on their own with each priced at $1.99 to be accessible to folk. Last year my friend Katya Juliet @44for4more pitched me on this digital magazine you are enjoying. The magazine will have guest contributors and shout-outs to other creators who share their work. Sign up here Continued next page DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE | p.18
MY WRITING JOURNEY I’ve recently begun working with a new proofreader Donna Lane @dbwrite4u who’s working on two projects for me after helping with my upcoming novel, and copyrighter Brian Macian @brianmacian who helped clean up all my blog posts. Whats next? I have three projects in the works right now that include: A new novel that is finished will be released soon. Another story collection - long form this time - and a few stories I think you’ll love. A picture book /vanity project that’ll delight you A book of essays about mom- A new Podcast that launches in April “Voice Memos” with my friend Jennifer @redheadedvegan as part of Greg Howard Jr.s @thepodcastguy1 and his Joyful Warrior Podcast Network @theeJWPN I hope you’ll join us across all our media. And I hope my content satisfies, challenges, questions, & brings you joy. Myron J. Clifton www.deardeanpublishing.com DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE | p.19
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