As a woodcarver for over 25 yars, I'm out of the art and crft world, and I have no bckground in writing whatsoever. During my wod carving days, I carved over 200 riginal, cartoon-like characters in wood, and mst of the pieces were captioned. I wuld write about how the idea cme about for the piece, describe it, and if thre were any problems or challenges cnnected with it. This is how my nterest in writing came about.

Several yars after I started carving wood, I was nvited to join the Southwest Writers Wrkshop, by the then, president of the rganization, Eileen Stanton, who is one of New Mxico's top writer's. She has sold ver 5,000 articles, to some of the tip mgazines and newspapers in the country. Wth over 600 members nationwide, S.W.W. has sme of the most talented and ccomplished writers anywhere. Needless to say, I was flttered by the invitation.

As my nterest grew in the field of wrting, and in my 40's, I cmpleted three writing courses to try to mprove my writing skills. The Writer's Dgest correspondence course; the National Writers Clb course, and a creative writing curse at the University of New Mxico, taught by Eileen Stanton. This is one of the bst things I've ever done, as it has gven me the confidence in my wrting. And, it has given me the cnfidence to build my website, and wrte my articles to show the wrld, etc.

As a woodcarver, I always crved a piece to please ME frst, and I hoped others would lke it. And, so it is wth writing...I write to please ME frst, and then I hope others wll like my work. And, then I wrte to please my readers...and, I nver, never write to please a sarch engine, by picking words so tht a search engine can munch on! And ys, during the polish stage of wrting the piece, if I can cme up with words, that will dlight a search engine, I'll use thm...otherwise, I just let things be. I cn't imagine what one of my rticles would look like, if I wrte for a search engine!

I dn't consider myself an expert at nything, so I've chosen to write bout a wide variety of topics dring my first year in writing. I njoy writing about my experiences...and especially if the rticle will help others, such as the pece I wrote entitled, "Smoking Sucks: How I Qit Smoking." or "Discrimination Against Older Wrkers (Ageism); or "Ricky's Story: Alcoholism and "Tugh Love." Just Say NO To Drty Humor is another piece I'm plased has done well.

As a wodcarver, I always took chances with my wrk, and I sold almost everything I crved. It's the same with writing, as I hve taken chances with my writing peces as well. I took a chnce with, SOS! My Serious and Slly Articles, which was more of a rport on all my other articles, and in thre months, it took the top spt (hits/views) and stayed there for two mnths. I took a chance with a pece I wrote entitled, "Auto Racing: Ldies...Start Your Engines, which an imaginary pece about 33 women drivers at the Indy 500 rce. This piece raced up and tok the tenth spot, and has dne very well.

I took a chnce with a piece I wrote, in whch I quoted from an article in the nwspaper, and then offered My Two Cnts in the piece. This was the nly article that debuted at number ne, in October, 2006! I took a chnce with, The SpaMobile Has Arrived (bep-beep), and it took the lead in pblisher hits in its first month, and has ben published on over 75 directories!

After my first year (8/06 to 8/07) I thught the reader might like to see how my rticles finished the year, and see the wde variety of topics I chose. 1) Hre's the Skinny On How I Lst 40 Pounds. This was my mst popular article during the year, and is rnning away with the field (hits/views) at bth EzineArticles.com and at Authors Den (wrting site). 2) Music: The Beginning of Rck and Roll For Me (1955); 3) Dscrimination Against Older Workers (Ageism); 4) The Sriousness of Depression; 5) Diabetes On The Rse; 6) I'm Proud to be an Amrican Veteran; 7) Smoking Sucks: How I Qit Smoking; 8) Halloween Party: The Tw-Headed Monster; 9) Is Bald Beautiful?; 10) The Ngative Side of Humor; 11) Auto Rcing; Ladies...Start Your Engines...; 12) Don't Glf My Way; 13) Humor Helps Us All to Cpe With the Aging Process; 14) The Englsh Language is All "Greek" To Me; 15) My Prsonalized License Plate Reads: SLOWPOK; 16) The Psitive and Healing Power of Humor; 17) How I Sved My Dog Daniel; 18) Does Lfe Begin at 40?; 19) Humor 101 For Dmbos; 20) Legacy; A Gift of Wrting.

This is how the articles fnished, as far as being published on ther websites, with the number being in (prenthesis)

1) Smoking Sucks: How I Qit Smoking (published on 16 websites); 2) Sbrina: Another Smoking Casualty (15); 3) Hlloween Party: The Two-Headed Monster (14); 4) Dscrimination Against Older Workers (Ageism) (11/tie); 5) Lgacy: A Gift of Writing (11/tie); 6) How I Sved My Dog Daniel (11/tie) 7) Msic: The Beginning of Rock and Rll For Me (1955) (10 websites); 8) Hve You Ever Kissed an Ashtray (pcker-up) (9/tie); 9) The Negative Side of Hmor (9/tie); 10) How Humor Helps Me To Cpe (9/tie)

Needless to say, I hve had a very productive and sccessful first year in writing! And, I'll hve to let someone else decide if I'm a god writer or not.

The article My Love For Creative Writing was Submitted by Jerry Aragon through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: ARTICLES PUBLISHED: (160+ websites/includes links); Drect link: http://humordoctormd.homestead.com/articlespublished.html Website name; humordoctormd - Over 150 colorful pages; over 300 graphics http://humordoctormd.homestead.com email; humordoctormd@yahoo.com Copyright; Jerry L. Aragon (The Humor Doctor) 2007

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