What is the Scribe's Arcanum?
And why should I care?
Welcome to my new Substack!
What’s going on? And why should I subscribe?
I’m reinstating the Scribe’s Arcanum!
Wait!
What is the Scribe’s Arcanum, you ask?
Great question!
The Scribe’s Arcanum is just a tongue and cheek way of saying: the writer’s secrets.
Back in the early 90s, as a young man transitioning into my early 20s, I felt I needed a way to regain my focus and steer my life in a successful direction. Having lived life for the most part scattershot, I began keeping a journal on the family Commodore 64/128, utilizing a rudimentary word processor to motivate myself to take action in every area of my life.
Interestingly, I wrote this journal just like a modern blog (or Substack) in a time before the internet as we know it (I think there were some newsgroups and such available using very low baud modems, but I didn’t have access to this nascent technology at the time). That’s right, I wrote it as if people could somehow read the journal I was creating on a giant floppy disk. I’m a futurist! Haha!
Writing the journal/blog helped me to set goals and take action toward my dreams. In short order, I returned to school, earning an associate’s degree (I would later go on to earn a bachelor’s degree and graduate magna cum laude), earned a black belt in old-school Korean Karate (Tae Kwon Do/Tang Soo Do), back in a time when a black belt meant something, and met the woman of my dreams, who would later become my wife.
Today, having leveled up by signing a contract with Crossroad Press and published my new novel, YEAR OF THE DEMON, I have decided to return to The Scribe’s Arcanum as a way to share my goals and accomplishments as I continue to work on my writing career, while sharing any tips, tricks, or secrets I may have picked up along the way.
This time The Scribe’s Arcanum is not so much for me as it is for you. I hope I can give you information and encouragement to help you with your writing goals, or any goals you may have. If you’re a reader, I hope you’ll subscribe to take a peek behind the curtain of the writing life and to keep in the loop of the many writing projects.
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I hope you’ll get a lot of value from this Substack, and I wish you all the best with your hobby or career. Don’t worry. I won’t flood your inbox. It will be rare when I post more than once a week.
Welcome to the Scribe’s Arcanum!
Until we meet next time…
Before you go! Check out my new martial arts action horror thriller, YEAR OF THE DEMON
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