Thread: Time to be a man

Time to be a Man (again)

August 28, 2001. My life changed or at least started the decline of my sanity. That's when I started my 10 year sentence. I finished it August 26, 2011. I was released on a Friday because Texas is passionate and doesn't release inmates on the weekend. So I was freed "a little early". In those 10 years I accumulated page upon page, notebook upon notebook of my stay behind bars. A diary of sorts, my thoughts, my fears, my hopes, my fantasies. Words from a dying, desperate man who missed so much of his old life. Please allow me to enter your life with what happened in mine. I hope my words can help someone understand what they are going through. I am no expert and don't profess to being one. I'm just someone who lost love and fell apart and made a very bad choice that affected so many of those I was supposed to love. Soon my goal is to publish a book on my time behind bars and my views on things. On my thoughts on the victim(s) and the silent victim, those we inmates leave behind. Our families, friends, love ones. The true victims the innocent victims, the silent ones. Those who lived and still live in shame because a parent decided to cope with life the easy way through crime. I can and never will be able to say sorry enough to those I love. In saying that my struggle continues today.

Hi Philip,

Welcome to the forums. I'm interested in reading what you have written about your stay in prison, I think it's going to be an eye-opener, perhaps for a lot of us. Just one, as we call them here, 'nit' that I picked up in your paragraph:

In saying that, my struggle continues today.

Needs a comma.

I see you have posted quite a few things, and that you have a blog as well. What a lot of people do here is place the link to their blog in their signature, so people can click on it immediately from your post. I'll try have a look at it later, time allowing.

Cheers, looking forward to seeing more of your work.

Thanks. I'll get the hang of all this.

Originally Posted by Philip Smith

Thanks. I'll get the hang of all this.

You will! Just keep at it.

One good place to practice your writing, if you want, is to participate in one of our LM competitions. It's casual, fun, and you get feedback...all for free! You can find the Literary Maneuvers forum here.

Philip it seems that you have a story to tell. So start telling it.

This sub forum specialises in stories based on fact - so you can practice on us.

Welcome.

Dv

Sounds like a plan Foxee

I'm in the process of going through all my notes I wrote up in prison. Thanks for the encouraging words Divus