Better Late Than Never

I was reading one of the many writing books I have in my library and discovered that I had never really pinned my writing down to one genre. I guess I always thought hey I’d just write anything that took my fancy but after reading several writing magazines as well I decided I had better take the bull by the horns and make a decision; that in itself is a big thing for indecisive me. So looking through the snippets of stories I have been collecting over the years I discovered several things. One: Why on earth have I been ignoring my writing and not giving it my full attention? There were so many stories up there in my head that wanted to burst forth but got ignored and forgotten about over the years that I could literally shake myself with frustration over. I have been finding snippets of good stories, maybe just a paragraph here and there but enough for me to want to know how the stories ended and at the moment I just don’t know, which frustrates me all the more. Secondly I noticed a common genre emerging, it wasn’t horror or romance or even chick lit which surprised the old romantic in me, but fantasy with the odd science-fiction story thrown in, in my homage to all things Star Trek and Star Wars. In fact when I looked at my first novel which I’ve never been brave enough to publish (yet), it was staring me in the face. So that’s it I am a fantasy writer, probably the most competitive market out there with some very big footsteps to follow in..Pratchett, Tolkien, Brooks, Goodkind, Feist, Gaiman plus many, many more, in fact what on earth am I thinking?!! But that’s it, I’ve said it, decision made or rather my writing muse made the decision for me, it’s only taken me thirty plus years to discover it, so now what?