Ask the Author: Skip Yetter
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Skip Yetter
As world nomads for more than six years, the portability of being a writer suits our lifestyle. My wife and I write nearly every day - blogs, articles for magazines, online pubs, or our novels - and it's easy to crack a laptop in a coffee shop and fall into a writer's trance for a bit. I'm doing just that right now in an airport coffee shop in Windhoek, Namibia.
Skip Yetter
Write every day. One sentence. One paragraph. One page or 20. Build a routine and develop a discipline. Rewrite liberally, and seek constructive criticism.
Skip Yetter
I have 2-3 sequels to the Jake Ketcher series in the works, and I'm deep into two other projects: the first, a novel from an old man's perspective as he looks back on his marriage with his wife, a dementia patient, and struggles to reconcile the core principles that their marriage was founded upon. The other, the story of a boy born to two aging hippies who is forced to grow up and fend for himself well before he is developmentally prepared to face the world.
Skip Yetter
Rilertown's plot is woven around actual events and experiences I had as a young reporter for the now-defunct Holyoke-Transcript Telegram in Holyoke, Mass. I wrote it to capture a period in US journalism that now seems long gone, and to create a contemporary hero in the newspaper business at a time when journalism jobs are ranking slightly above garbage collector and dog catcher.
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