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A WRITER'S LIFE
Watlz of Words and Life
Upon the closing of eyes, visualization comes easier.
One future day, amid the endless rubble of a post-apocalyptic city, near a former library, an excited literati will occasion
on the works popular and obscure writers of the 20th and 21st Centuries. The literati will engage in a self gratifying game
whereby the relative merit of relationship fiction and suspense/mystery fare are discoursed.
The analysis will consist of form and literary critcism of style and story presentation.
In most cases, the examiner will conclude that all genre, in substance, and on the stipping away of author crapola,
are merely escapist. They are more similar than distinct. Nothing more -- nothing less.
Maybe I will included in the group the biblio-archeologist puts under the spyglass. Confined
to the present space and time continuum, I can only speculate. It could happen. It should, if I play this rigfht. Talent
is simply a hand God deals -- with it comes responsibility to maximize and edify with the gift. Thus, since I believe that,
conjecture should birth fact.
I am a novelist. As such my intent is to fashion
scenes of realistic intrigue and premise. Mine is also a search for dialogue herethefore unspoken. Of course, it must meld
seamlessly into the scenario. A smooth waltz of words partnered with supposed life situations. Neither of these are easy to
achieve for efficient word-craftsmen have existed before me and will appear long after I am gone. However, I do not find my
task to be anything but a sweet challenge.
This being said, my sincerest prayer is that my stories will resonate by impinging the reader
and intice thier imagination. They will know that they have experienced something completely different amd wonderful as they
dive into what I have set to paper. To be certain, the reader will see a ring of similarity in almost everything I write because
each protagonist, be they the brainy, erudite Perry Richards, or his enthrallng wife, Felicia, or the sexually
energetic Marvin Tanner, or the formidable Miriam Kincade, are simply pawns. They are spokes in a game where events spiral
and spin out of control. Hell unleashed in tranquility.
These protagonist have a purpose, perhaps noble. They are 'gunslingers.' Their task
is to right things -- stop the nonsense. They are knights of human righteousness. Along the way, pieces of lost souls are
rediscovered and recovered. In an insanity plagued world, these valiant soldiers are awake in a place where madness never
sleeps. They realize that madness only goes dormant -- only to rest up and torment again.
The future literari will see the futility, yet in spite of it, the shinny rainbow of
the victory of the human spirit. If I am fortunate, maybe one of my works will achieve what my 'literary father,' Dashiell
Hammett accomplished with the Maltese Falcon. Critics proclaimed that this novel of the black bird was a finely
etched depiction of passion borned greed, but it was also one of the finest books ever written. Therein was achieved
purpose and truth. That is what I am striving for --rapshody in the harmonic interplay of words, ideas, emotions, and the
pulse of life.
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