Messy, piles of papers, books, notes and old, used napkins never thrown away. But I saw Carl Sandburg's desk and it looks worse. So I figure I'm in good company.

1976. I had a story running around in my head for years and finally jumped in and wrote a play entitled "Justice Prevails".

"A Self-Storage Story" a mystery thriller, came from ten years working in the self-storage business as an on-site manager.

After I finished my first novel, "True Globalization" I worked harder at getting it published or at least finding an agent. I was growing old with no success so I went the indie route. Now I have six books and three plays offered at Smashwords.

Absolutely. People I would have never found have bought and hopefully enjoyed my books.

Finally seeing words on paper and out of my head. My books are developed completely in my head, started with an idea and growing when I walk, when I lay down to go to sleep, and sometimes daydreaming while in others folks' company, which can be embarrassing.

Right now I'm writing a movie script for a movie my son and I hope to produce in the next year or two. I just finished a play I was commissioned to do, "Blindsided" dealing with blind vendors and their problems with the military ignoring the law that they have a given priority for servicing the food and vending machine business on every military base.

John Irving, Richard Ford, and Kurt Vonnegut

The fact that I woke up.

Yes, it was the story that started as a radio play and developed into a stage play - "Justice Prevails."

I have an idea rolling around in my head. It could have come from a snippet on a TV show I'm watching or some, what seemed to be insignificant incident, that happened, or comes from who knows where. If it has legs, it stays in my head and grows. When it seems a viable story, I begin to put it on paper. I very seldom write outlines for stories. But after I've written a page or so, if I think it will work, I write the ideas I want the story to cover. Then I go to work, trying to make the story flow. As it develops, I start to discard the bad ideas and rearrange the good ones if they need moved. When I think I'm done, I read the story as a complete work to see how it goes. Then the re-writes correct things I didn't like or needed correction for other reasons. And that's it.

I was always a reader. I remember sitting in school in elementary grades, reading during recesses or lunch hour when other kids were outside playing. Not that I was a total bookworm, but I did enjoy a good book. So I have no idea what the first book I read was.