What is your writing process?
I've made it a point to sit at my desk every morning after I rise at 6:00 am as though I am going to a job. I meditate for about a half hour and make a pot of coffee and I close the door to my office to sit at my desk. Most of the time I already know what I want to put on the page by the time I am at the desk but, when I don't know what I have to say, I put a sheet of paper on the roll of my old Remington Noiseless manual typewriter and pound out gibberish. I make sure that I use the first four hours of the day at my desk so that the rest of the day is free. Reading the near finished draft to someone else is most crucial and/or into a recorder to play it back.
Do you remember the first story you ever read, and the impact it had on you?
I don't recall the first story I'd ever read but the first ones with the most impact were from the Upton Sinclair, Lenny Bruce, series. I was in the fourth grade at the time and I found one in the school library and I had been looking for a war adventure to pass time.These not only opened up a taste for historical fiction but awakened my young mind to a world view I did not have from where I grew up.
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