To Write or Not To Write

Mar 30

There is a school of thought that in order to be a great writer you have to write "every day".

I might agree with that premise if you write for a newspaper or some job that requires you to write as if it is a mundane 8 hour job. But I don't think you need to write every day if your writing is entwined with your creative process. To do so would be to put an undue amount of stress on yourself.

I believe in writing when the moment is there. When I start writing a book I don't set a minimum word count, or set number of hours, or a chapter goal. I write until I don't want to write any more and I love the feeling.

Today I'm battling a cold. I've had it for two days now. Those past 2 days I didn't feel like writing. And obviously it wasn't because of the cold. Today I'm still sick and yet...I got a lot of writing done. Why? Because I wasn't constrained by some one person's individual rule.

Writing is your art form and no one else's. Don't let them dictate how you achieve it.

*cough*...now back to bed.

Jerrimiah Stonecastle

Stonecastle Publications LLC

"Throwing Stones at a Glass House"

Jerrimiah Stonecastle

Born and raised in the slums of New York, he was raised by a single mom who earned her Master's in Early Childhood Development while working as a teacher's aide. She sent young Jerrimiah to the prestigious Power Memorial Academy for Boys, the Alma mater of NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He worked part-time after school to help his mom pay for his tuition.

He declined a full scholarship from Concordia University and joined the US Army and became a combat medic. He returned to New York upon his discharge where he was hired by the NYC Chief Medical Examiner’s Office as a medical stenographer.

In 1982 he joined the New York City Police Department. In 1983 he was recruited by the Organized Crime Control Bureau (OCCB) as an undercover officer in their narcotics division. He finished out his career as a detective assigned to the Bronx Homicide Task Force.

When he retired in 2002, he relocated to Florida to pursue his passion for writing. After hundreds of rejection letters and reading Amanda Hocking's story, he decided to self-publish his own works. In 2016 he formed Stonecastle Publications LLC and has published 30 books so far. He has an additional 400 fiction and nonfiction novels in draft form in his company's literary vault.

On October 31, 2018, He launched his first horror novel "FRANKENSTINA" and released the sequel "FRANKENSTINA REBORN" on Halloween 2019. There are two more books in the horology.

On March 7, 2023, he received the Literary Titan Book Award for the apocalyptic thriller "A Flash of Light".

Stonecastle Publications LLC

"Throwing Stones At a Glass House"

https://jerrimiahstonecastle.org/

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