Over The Transom
Confessions of a Wannabe Writer
ISBN: 0-9714832-9-9
Pub
Date: October 2002
Description:
Noses to the grindstone keeps words flowing.
If Tom Lynn's parents hadn't ignored his early writing on walls they
might have spawned a successful author with a summer home on the
Riviera. As it is, he never knew he had a muse until he noticed folks
chuckling at his little essays and nonsense stories. Even so, he found
the road ahead full of holes for a wannabe writer.
Here on these pages are some of his little tales about the adventures
and pitfalls facing all who possess a desire to write their own stories.
Often entertaining as well as instructive, his words shadow the trials
and experiences every writer faces at various crossroads. Humor and
voices in the night lead the way through computer glitches, power
failures, writer's block, posthumous interviews, peer relationships,
participial perils, and critic reviews.
Through it all, beginning writers will learn to drag themselves from
warm beds during early morning hours for a headstart on the day and to
overcome irritating annoyances forming roadblocks in their endeavors to
attain that high pinnacle -- the author's bestseller list.
This book could very well become a stepping stone, so read on and enjoy.
Author's Bio:
Thomas Lynn was
born in 1930 at St. Louis, Missouri. A professional law enforcement
officer, he taught report writing courses at the Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center at Glyncoe, Georgia.
A soldier,
poet, husband, father and grandfather, he was also a regular
contributing editor for Writers Rescue Magazine and a columnist for
Sharing & Caring Magazine. His fiction bylines include The Last Battle
published by Sandpiper Press and Gurney’s Squad published in Sharing &
Caring. Lynn’s essays and articles have been published in Army Magazine,
Writer’s Journal, Writer’s Guidelines & News and Mediphors. He is a
member of the Georgia Poetry Society, the Georgia Writers Inc., and the
Gulf Coast Writers Association.
In 1995, his
poem Old Comrades was engraved on a Korean War Memorial monument and
unveiled at the Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor, Maine.
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