I am a journalism major. One of my teachers, a woman who had interviewed Nixon in the fifties, said 'you must write!" So here I am, taking a small idea about a brick that never seemed quite flush in my basement, and a tale of (I hope convincing) about a guy based loosely(very) on myself. I do take huge creative license on Jack, so the closest I can come to him is in my writing. The funny thing that happened while writing, was how alive these characters became to me. I can see why when reading about the American writers in Paris in the twenties,
they drank hard. I guess making a living through writing

fiction is not that easy on the psych. If you find this
entertaining, I am starting another. What great fun. Thanks Post script. Pardon the grammatical and editing. I went through story three times...and it took about six months. So if you give it a strong recommendation, I will consider a professional editor. I will say though, sometimes entertaining writing is sloppy, just like real life. One more thing-I included Ernest Hemingway here...I admired his writing style. It was a style that was rooted in his journalistic style of who;what;why;where;when. He could describe a fishing scene so thoroughly, that you could swear you smelled the trout on your hands. It was the first time a book/story took me to that other place...the imagination.I read about Spain in The Sun Also Rises, which I would recommend as his best novel. His descriptive verse was amazing. He would just take a scene, and explain it in such detail you would think you were in the story. I tried, but I don't think I came anywhere near that. Others I like are Heller;Steinbeck;Vidal;Wharton;James Baldwin;and Erica Jong.Post script. Writing is lonely, but the reward is characters that come to life. Please tell me if you liked it. Thanks again.