Ask the Author: James Foley Smathers
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James Foley Smathers
I am inspired to write stories about people and events of which I have first hand knowledge.
By writing fiction I have a free hand to make adjustments that can make both the characters and the story more interesting.
By writing fiction I have a free hand to make adjustments that can make both the characters and the story more interesting.
James Foley Smathers
I would travel back in time to VietNam in 1966 and try to make some decision "do-overs" that might have save lives and prevented injuries.
James Foley Smathers
Easy, the best thing is the freedom. Write for the fun of it. When writing becomes work for me I will stop doing it.
James Foley Smathers
I write fiction because of the freedom it offers and I have never been that excited about research.
James Foley Smathers
I wrote Transformations as a work of fiction, and the behavior of the two main characters may seem a bit extreme. However, I was inspired by real-life situations and because of my personal knowledge of the players, the major events occurred just as depicted. I have often wondered what would have transpired had the two real-life protagonists ever met each other. Transformations just made it happen.
James Foley Smathers
"Iniquity" is a novel about 4 young college graduates, who in order to avoid the draft, enroll in the United States Marine Corps Office Candidate School Program. Their training takes them from Quantico, VA to California, to Okinawa and eventually Vietnam. The story is a biographical, but written in the third person as fiction.
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