As an author I am always interested in meeting other authors. I find them to be quite an interesting and amusing collection of people. Most of them are quite arrogant if they have any story published. It is quite something to be published so maybe they have a bit of a reason for the arrogance.

In addition to being an author, I am also a single mother, so on occasion I look at dating sites. Recently I found an author on a dating site. He asked me what I had written. I said it was still being worked on. He said he had several books published already and they were doing quite well. He provided a link to his website and I took a look at some of his writing. The first thing I noticed was a plethora of repeating stems which is a no no in writing. The second thing I noticed is that there was not one cohesive thought process in all of his writing. I wouldn’t have read any of his books if he had paid me to read them, they were a confusing mess of words.

When he asked me why I hadn’t finished my book yet I told him I had to make a living while working on my dream. He replied “Writer’s write.”  That made me so angry I stopped procrastinating with my novel  and started writing almost every day. Then I decided that he was not worth corresponding with anymore and put him in the trash bin of memories in my mind.

This evening I was out with my son for dinner and a movie after we went to church. I noticed that one of the waiters looked familiar. I tried placing him. I struggled for a few moments, then I realized he was the man who said he was making his living as an author. It was obviously not enough of a living to work full time as a writer but he had never indicated that he waited tables. I tried to make sure I didn’t make any eye contact with him, I didn’t want to blow his cover. But I was amused because he was clearly not as successful as he had presented himself to be in his profile. He had also said he was in good shape and I think he may have a different definition of good shape than most people have. I don’t consider obesity to be the same as being in good shape.

He was quite the con job but I thought it was amusing. I guess some writer’s write and some writers “wait” to write. I don’t think he did either. He was spinning a story but any good story is told with a thread of truth and his story was full of lies. Glad I didn’t correspond any further because I don’t have the time to waste on someone who is attempting to make  a living selling lies.