Ask the Author: S.B. Nace
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S.B. Nace
They circled the bruja's hut and tossed their torches onto its thatched roof. Waiting in the cain field about it, they fingered the edges of their machetes.
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That is a very hard question. I am very interested in the post-apocalyptic world of Robert Harris' book "The Second Sleep." I love the world we have, but it would be a lot better without so many people. I am not a misanthrope, but we have simple over-populated the earth beyond sustainability. I don't believe in an anthropocentric world (or universe). The earth and its creatures have a right to exist in themselves.
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The Peter Matthiessen Reader, The Recollections of Charley Russell, "The Road Home" by Jim Harrison, "Not on my Watch" by Howard Gershkowitz,
"Citizen Tom Paine" by Howard Fast, "A God Within" by Rene Dubos, "Julian" by Gore Vidal, "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner, "The Final Country" by James Crumley, and others.
"Citizen Tom Paine" by Howard Fast, "A God Within" by Rene Dubos, "Julian" by Gore Vidal, "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner, "The Final Country" by James Crumley, and others.
S.B. Nace
I have little notebooks squirreled away that have ideas from my trip-guiding days in Nepal and Spain. Vague ideas of once (and possibly future) considered plots still bang about in my head.
S.B. Nace
Set your work aside, keep your notebook handy and pick up a good book and enjoy. Your creative edge with reboot itself. Remember if you're not having fun, what's the point!
S.B. Nace
I've got to say the inward journey. The amazement at where your mind can take you while at your task.
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I've only the one book out there in print so far, so I too am an aspiring writer. But I would say read a few books on writing. Read them and highlight them, but don't go over board--you've got to write! That is the primary thing and read good authors in what ever genre you like. Research and revise again and again. WRITING IS REVISION! Find a local writers group (if you can with Covid still disrupting things). Keep a little note book by your bed and if you can with you, always (you can use your notes and voice recorder on your smart phone).
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I like 'Westerns' and I attempt to approach them in a more literary way. Books like A.B. Guthrie's "The Big Sky," Charles Portis' "True Grit," John William's "Butcher's Crossing," Paulette Jiles' "News of the World," and others inspire me. But most of my ideas come historic events.
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I am currently working on a Contemporary/Historic Western, which I have titled: "In the Cruelty of a Velvet Dawn"
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On visiting my uncle in Sepulveda, California many years ago, he told me of his childhood growing up in Montana (where I also, mainly, grew up), and about an older man who worked on a ranch with him and could ride and shoot exceptionally well. And taught him to do the same. This older man, named Charley Gannon, turned out to be a wanted man and ended up in a gun battle in the bunk house of the ranch he and my uncle were working on. Details went on from there and the story stuck with me until I search out all I could find about "Gannon" (one of the man's several names). I wrote about that search in my university thesis, and started my novel several years later.
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