Blog Hop: Pass the Stick

Blog hop introduces writers and gives a glimpse of their work and style. I was tagged for this Blog Hop by writer Henry Martin - here's his introduction (to find out more about Martin's work, check previous blog posts where I wrote a review of his literary work). 

When he's not buried elbow-deep in some greasy motorcycle project, Henry Martin enjoys reading quality literature and writing prose and poetry of varying coherency. He finds inspiration in conquering the open road while trying to outrun some of the characters he created in the past. He lives with his family in the Northeast, surrounded by coyotes, foxes, and bears.

Martin contributes faithfully to several Goodreads discussions and is also a moderator in several groups discussing literary fiction.
To find out more about him and his work, visit:
Goodreads author page:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6583769.Henry_Martin?from_search=true
Blog: http://mad-days-of-me.blogspot.com
Amazon author page:
http://www.amazon.com/Henry-Martin/e/B001JCCFNI/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1402527316&sr=8-1



Now, here are my answers to the blog hop questions:

What am I working on?
I'm on a development phase right now. I've started several projects but have not yet found the one that makes me passionate to continue, so I'm searching and researching, reading and writing reviews and looking for what's out there in the indie world.

How does my work differ from others in the genre?
This is a tough question because I have currently two published works. A novel and a poetry collection. The novel has been classified as literary fiction by several readers and editors, although when I wrote it, I had no specific genre in mind and was not worried about the classification. My poetry is mainly free verse, and encompasses different themes - there's love poems, life poems, dark poems and so on.

Why do I write what I write?
I write what I feel like writing, not thinking necessarily about a specific audience. It has to come from my heart, from an inner desire to create something and make the characters alive, to the point that I'm just a scribe, not a creator, the characters take possession of their own life and fate, that's how I wrote the novel. As for the poetry, I write from the heart, mostly derived from a sensation, a feeling, or an experience.

How does my writing process work?

I don't have a specific routine for my writing process. I have to be inspired and motivated to sit and create and let the characters move and invent their own fate and circumstances. I can't think of the whole story and do an outline. Usually, I have a firm idea of either the beginning or the end, and the means to get there will be up to the development of the plot, as it goes.


Introducing :

Daniel Wetta:

Daniel Wetta is a retired Certified Public Accountant who spent most of his career in the health care field. For twenty years he was the CFO and then CEO of a Virginia hospital and nursing home in a large healthcare company. He wrote short stories as a young man, and at the College of William and Mary, he really learned to write. He is a life-long lover of Corvettes, Las Vegas, and living on the edge. He is in love with his family, and he is passionate about United States and Mexican history, the Spanish language, and using social media.

http://danielwetta.com/authorsblog/
https://www.facebook.com/wettabooks
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7107413.Daniel_Wetta?from_search=true
http://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Wetta/e/B00CWQLRPC/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1402528679&sr=8-1


Pamela Fagan Hutchins:

Pamela Fagan Hutchins writes award-winning and bestselling romantic mysteries and hilarious nonfiction, and moonlights as a workplace investigator and employment attorney. She is passionate about great writing, smart authorpreneurship, and her two household hunks, husband Eric and one-eyed Boston terrier Petey. She also leaps medium-tall buildings in a single bound, if she gets a good running start.

https://www.facebook.com/pamela.fagan.hutchins.author
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/682431.Pamela_Fagan_Hutchins?from_search=true
http://pamelahutchins.com/road-to-joy-blog/
http://www.amazon.com/Pamela-Fagan-Hutchins/e/B007UII1T2/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1402530137&sr=1-1