This is mark Joseph “young” blog entry #537, on the subject of Authorship Review.
Lately I’ve had several people ask in private e-mails about authorship–how and why I started writing or continue to write. As this has more than once sent me on a search, I decided it would be practical to post a brief index of the web log posts and pages I usually include in my answer, most from my mark Joseph “young” web log.
Blog post #72: Being an Author discusses what it means and who qualifies.
#279: My Journey to Becoming a Writer gives a lot of that history.
#504: Why I Started Writing looks a bit deeper at that.
#18: A Novel Comic Milestone is specifically about the origin of the Multiverser novels.
#439: Corpoises: Toward a Story provides a similar background to my novella Corpoise.
#132: Writing Horror provides something of a how-to on the genre.
#426: A Christian View of Horror looks further at the genre, tempering the previous article to some degree.
#331: What’s With the Names? connects to my history in writing, explaining why my books and articles appear under different bylines.
A complete list of books I have or have had in print can be found at Books by the Author: M. Joseph Young. The novels have been published serialized online for free reading; the index of the first and links to the indices of all the others are at Verse Three, Chapter One: The First Multiverser Novel. The M. J. Young Net web site long ago exceeded a thousand pages, originally at several other addresses, covering many subjects including Bible, Law, Politics, Dungeons & Dragons™, Multiverser™, Martial Arts in Role Playing Games, and Time Travel Theory, hopefully reasonably well organized. The blog itself has exceeded five hundred entries; #500: A Five Cent Review selects sixty-three of what I thought were the most notable when it hit that milestone.
I rarely mention it, but sometimes people ask, or perhaps challenge, what makes me think my thoughts on all these subjects matter. Although I didn’t recognize it until I was an adult, I’m smarter than the average bear, as the saying goes. Years back I posted a page called M. J. Young’s Bragging Rights, which references a few of the recognitions I’ve received over the decades which mark me as a bit smarter than average.
I expect if these prompt more questions, I’ll provide more answers, but as I said to one of the questioners, that’s a good place to start. Feel free to write to me at mjyoung@mjyoung.net if you want to talk about any of these things.
I hate to have to include this here, but for anyone who thinks it’s a good idea to offer to sell me their services as web designer or book reviewer or promoter or anything else, the budget is $0.00, non-negotiable. If you can work with that, we can talk. I get at least a dozen such letters every day, and consider them Spam, what is properly called U.C.E.: Unsolicited Commercial E-mail. Please don’t contact me for that.
