Hi. Remember me?

There is nothing harder than to find time to write my blog.  Well, okay, there are harder things.  Maybe I should say, there is nothing harder to remember than to write a blog.

I have been extremely busy ghost writing for several authors.  Riehl Faith Productions is doing great and we even have to hire some Independent Contractors for writing and editing, because Kathryn and I are loaded with work.  If you're in the Las Cruces, New Mexico area and would like to be a part of something huge, please send writing and/or editing samples to alanriehl@hotamail.com

One more plug.  I will be teaching two writing classes this June!  Introduction to Novel Writing and Introduction to Screenwriting will be held at the East Mesa Campus of Dona Ana Community College.  Follow this link http://www.riehlfaithproductions.com/   to follow another link to sign up.  The next classes I do will be online.  Hindsight is 20/20. Deadline is June 4, 2014.  While you're at our website, make sure you check out Kathryn's first book:  Flippy the Fly!  It's the first book in a series made to help Children with enunciation problems.

I'm halfway through and I realized that this is my catch-up blog.  I appreciate your patience and will try to be more regular.

While it's on my mind, I'd like to talk a little about writing from the heart.  I encourage all of you to write what you want and not what others are telling you write.  Unless of course, you are signed with a major publisher.  There is a world filled with advice-givers who you have to keep dodging to put out a marketable and a passionate piece of work.

It's all about the passion my friends.  If you don't feel it, your readers won't feel it.  I believe I've mentioned it before, but when I kill a character in one of my novels, I get choked up and sometimes even shed a tear.  That's what I'm talking about.

I've also seen a lot of authors giving up after having published only a couple of books.  Let me tell you something and then I'll leave you wondering when my next blog will come out.  Unless you've written something and tried to sell it, you have no idea how hard it is.  Writing it's a life changing event that will seep into your soul and take over any other career choices you might consider.  It also calls for sacrifice.  There are no short cuts and no easy path to making a living as a writer.  I am blessed enough to be able to call writing my daytime job, but remember one important fact...I'm succeeding by writing for other people.

I could put my time and blood into writing for myself and maybe someday I will have that time, but for now I am glad to be working.

I guess my advice would be:  Don't be too proud or think that you're too good to write for anyone.  Don't overlook all possibilities and don't ever give up...ever.  Did I say ever?  No one can stop you but you.

I don't push myself to my limits, because I don't believe I have any. Yeah, you can use it.

 It may take you years or even decades to get where you want to be.  It took me about 8 years and I'm still growing.  Don't ever think you know everything.  That's my last bit of advice for today.

God bless and Happy Memorial day Weekend.  Never forget the ones who sacrificed their lives for our country!   Alan Riehl Riehl Faith Productions CEO/CFO/Head Writer