Hello there, and welcome
to From the Mind of One Tim Cubbin! In case you can’t guess, my name is Timothy
Cubbin, but everyone calls me “Tim,” so you can get used to that, too.
So for starters, I’d like
to tell you a bit about myself first, so you can feel like you know me as you
journey through the weirdness of my mind. At present I am thirty-two years old
and live in Continental Village, New York. I have lived there for almost my
entire life except for three years while I attended college at C.W. Post Campus
of Long Island University, which is, of course, on Long Island, New York, so I’ve
never spent any length of time out of New York. I never actually finished
college there, we’ll say I had a little too much of a good time, but I finished
college with University of Phoenix Online. My associate’s degree is in
education. My bachelor’s degree, however, is in the English arts, where I specialized
in journalism. I’ve always wanted to be a professional writer. I’ve been doing
creative writing projects since I was six years old. I’ve always had a very
active imagination and love getting ideas down in print. I’ve actually been
published twice, once while I was elementary school in a children’s poetry
anthology and once several years back in a book on mental illness. In these
examples, however, I didn’t write fiction, but one of my fortes is in
fiction/fantasy. I’ve even been working on a drama novel series and hope to one
day be a published author. People always ask me why, since I majored in English
I didn’t take a concentration in creative writing. My answer is simple: I want
to be a published author, sure, but I needed something to fall back on, in case
I don’t professionally make it as an author. My particular reason for choosing
journalism is because I am a very big Spider-Man fan and dreamt of becoming a
photographer as a kid, but I learned I don’t have the proper talents with the
camera, while as a writer I do have the proper skills, so journalism had its
appeal. Still, despite having an English degree, my grammar while writing isn’t
perfect, but then again, who is perfect and can say writing improper grammar is
not desirable? It does have its appeals.
So why I’m doing this
blog? To use my creative writing and journalistic talents to get noticed. I’ve
done research into getting published, and it’s not easy. For some bizarre reason,
most publishers aren’t interested in taking on new authors. How any writer gets
a start is beyond me. But having a blog and getting out there? Seems a good way
to get noticed.
But I’m getting ahead of
myself here. You should know the kinds of things you’ll find on this blog.
Well, I’ve written several short stories is recent years, and getting them published
in a literary magazine is the same challenge of getting a novel published, if
not worse. So, I think you all might enjoy seeing these stories, so I’ll be
posting those. I also have some free-verse poetry talent. I’m not some poetic
wordsmith who can make rhymes or format, but poems don’t need to rhyme, no
matter what anyone says. You can also see pieces I write, such as essays,
articles, and editorials, as well as book and movie reviews.
I’ll leave off here for
now, but this introduction is not over, so come back next time for more about
me. Until next time, Tim Cubbin… out!
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