I've been trying to write all my life because I've enjoyed reading all my
life. My little brother and two sisters got the benefit of first efforts,
but the stories never measured up to Tom Sawyer...vizualizați mai multeI've been trying to write all my life because I've enjoyed reading all my
life. My little brother and two sisters got the benefit of first efforts,
but the stories never measured up to Tom Sawyer or Winnie the Pooh, so I
changed to writing advertising copy and newpaper reporting. In 1982, between
jobs, I decided to take a whole year and write this book. It took that year
to do the first draft and the next seventeen years to get it right. I owe
many people thanks, but it was my writer's grtoup that doggedly insisted that
I do it over and over until it was really a novel.
I am 73 years old and have been a farmer, a soldier, a sheet metal
worker, fine artist/commercial artist, copywriter and news reporter. I have
also been a teacher and story teller, a husband and most important, the
father of two fine children.vizualizați mai puține