Hello, again. I am
happy to share with you why I write. It
might surprise you, some of the reasons I do what I do. As I’ve explained elsewhere on this blog, I
write to explore moral and spiritual topics, but storytelling is also a main
reason. I have told stories, to myself
and others, about as long as I can remember.
Before pre-school, I was dreaming up stories about Florida, the place my
family eventually moved to. As I became
older, I got interested in cartooning and invented squadrons of fighter planes
with interesting characters as pilots.
The cartooning led me into telling my first stories on paper, so that in
high school my creative writing was getting interest from my English
teachers. By the time I had finished
high school, I had begun a saga about two brothers, Surgon and Turgon, who went
on Dungeons and Dragons type adventures.
I really co-wrote this with my friend Jim King. Sadly, when I left for university in the
fall, I no longer worked on the saga.
I love creating characters.
I love history. I love military
history for what it teaches us about being human. I love learning more about people as I
explore the characters’ psyches both my own characters and characters in
others’ books. Story entertains. It teaches.
It enthralls and at its best, it is magic.
I also love airplanes and flying. My whole childhood I wanted to be a pilot,
and then at age 20 I was disabled in Air Force training. It’s something I can’t talk or write about,
but it effectively ended my flying career before it began. So now I go on a flight simulator from time
to time, practice touch and goes, and dream of stories about pilots, like In
Love and War.
I love travel. I love
adventure. I love basing stories on places
I have been. It is a much more
satisfying exercise than just taking a snapshot.
I am also doing a free giveaway of one of my books, SWIMMING
AMONG THE OLYMPIANS, on October 13 and 14! Click here to get your free kindle copy of SWIMMING AMONG THE OLYMPIANS:
Happy Reading!
Chris
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