Ask the Author: Patrice Johnson
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Patrice Johnson
Deaf from suffocation,
limp from fatigue,
lost in the confusion of being inversed,
the once-straight blade
lies tangled in the mud.
--Final stanza in a poem written by Tyler Johnson in The Fall and Rise of Tyler Johnson, page 417 (ebook version)
limp from fatigue,
lost in the confusion of being inversed,
the once-straight blade
lies tangled in the mud.
--Final stanza in a poem written by Tyler Johnson in The Fall and Rise of Tyler Johnson, page 417 (ebook version)
Patrice Johnson
I suppose the best thing about being a writer is that it makes me think.
Patrice Johnson
Writing is a wrenching task and can become very personal. To grow as a writer, it's necessary to read voraciously and to be open to advice/criticism.
Patrice Johnson
As Bonnie Hearn Hill once told me, "The only writing that can't be fixed is a blank page." I just write.
Patrice Johnson
I currently serve as editor-in-chief for a community newspaper. I still rise early and am working on book two of Tyler's story, based on his remaining 400-plus pages of journals. This true story will be even more difficult for me to write because it will--must--end with the rumble of an avalanche while Tyler was on a solo expedition in Corsica's wintry mountains.
Patrice Johnson
Tyler was missing for six years, and there was nothing my family or I could do to help him. When my husband, daughter and I traveled to Corsica, France, to claim the Tyler's remains and personal effects, we found his journals in a box in a remote mountain cabin. As I studied his journals and organized them chronologically, I realized that at last I could do something to help Tyler, and he would want to help others. With the expert guidance and encouragement of best-selling authors Bonnie Hearn Hill and Mark Spencer, I fell into the routine of rising every morning at 4:30 a.m. and writing for six to eight hours. Over the course of seven years, as Bonnie and Mark taught me the craft of thriller and narrative nonfiction writing, this book was born. Simply put: I couldn't not write it.
Patrice Johnson
I am publishing the account of the life of my son, Tyler, to serve as a warning flag to all who may feel tempted to cross to the wrong side of the law.
No young person should feel that his or her life is over as the result of a seemingly irreversible mistake.
No young person should feel that his or her life is over as the result of a seemingly irreversible mistake.
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