How I Became an AC Contributor

OK, this is it. I'm really doing this. After thinking long and hard on how to become famous and how to reach millions of people at once, AC came with the perfect solution: just publish your stories. And why not. I mean, it's not because nobody knows me (yet) and the fact that I haven't written anything in my life, nor that I didn't take any writing classes or read 'Writing for Dummies' that I'm not a good writer (it probably does mean just that, but one can always dream, no?).

So here's my plan. I am going to write, and write, and write, and you're all going to read and enjoy it. Why? Simple. Most of the articles I'm going to write will either be born out of frustration, based on true (traveling) stories or just small stories I feel the whole world should know about. Everybody is interested in other people's grieves and there are plenty of people who are interested in traveling stories because they don't have the time or the money or the guts to do so themselves, so there shouldn't be a shortage of readers. In doing so, I might actually offend a religion or 2 (isn't that what religions are for in the first place?), get on the bad side of a few superpowers and might have to apologize to quite a few people, but hey, if that's the price to pay, I'm perfectly willing to do that. It has been said before, there is no such thing as bad publicity so if you want to object to an article publicly, please go for it. With a bit of luck, I might be able to turn it into a sequel and make a series out of it which even more people would want to read.

Question is: how will I react if nobody likes what I write, or worse, nobody even cares. In other words: how will I deal with failure and total rejection? Well, only one way to find out, I guess. So it's all up to you, great people out there with an internet connection who have nothing better to do than read a story from a complete and utter stranger. Tell all your friends, colleagues, mistresses, pet animals to log on and read my stories and get me the hits I need to become filthy rich. I deserve it. So subscribe to my writing, leave me a note, criticize me, do whatever it takes to make me a better writer, but just remember one thing: I will not give in. Not now. Not this time. I'll be here for a long, long time, so you'd better get used to seeing my name on the 'new articles' list. And who knows, you might even like it. If not, well, I guess you've just lost 5 minutes of your precious time then. Worse things have happened. Trust me, I know what I'm saying, I'm a bartender.