Over the next two years, while balancing a full-time job and raising six children (and pretty much nothing else), I poured my heart and soul into building Dabble-an elegant tool specifically designed for novel writers. The fusion of my two passions, beautiful software and great stories. The tool I would want to use when I eventually came back to writing. So I decided, software it is!īut … why not create software now that can help me write later? Of course! I would build software for writing. It is more likely to fund my writing than my writing to fund the creation of my software business. If I had to choose one thing to finish anything, what was the right option? Hey, I've been doing software for years. Writing is hard! Creating a business is hard! Doing both at once in your spare time? Well, you know, live and learn. And eventually, I came to that same conclusion. Over the next few years, I tried both creating my own software business and writing a novel, both on the side. Writing turned into my second great passion, right after creating beautiful software. I devoured book after book on the writing process, plotting, editing, and dialogue. I could learn to write! That’s when I became bitten by the writing bug. Eventually decided to come back to writing. ![]() James shared his personal journey: took college writing classes, was told he would never be a writer by the teacher and had no writing talent. ![]() ![]() And what do you know? The introduction was titled Putting the Big Lie to Sleep and turned out to align with my theory. I started right away with Plot & Structure by James Scott Bell. Maybe I could do the same with fiction.Ī few minutes later, I had five new books on writing on my Kindle. I could write it! I taught myself to write software. Where were the amazing reads? Is the world finished writing great stories? I had read (or tried to read) several books that fell flat. Dabble really started back on a fall day in 2010.
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