Ask the Author: Conrad Jungmann
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Conrad Jungmann
For me, I wrote with the end in mind... my final chapter of EDGE OF REDFISH LAKE was actually the third one I wrote. I knew where I wanted to go. I just wasn't 100% sure how I was going to get there.
And once I started the first draft, I did not stop. Get it all down on paper (or computer). Then spend tons of time editing, re-writing, and fine-tuning. I think I wrote my entire first draft in 90 days, non-stop... then 2 years editing!
And once I started the first draft, I did not stop. Get it all down on paper (or computer). Then spend tons of time editing, re-writing, and fine-tuning. I think I wrote my entire first draft in 90 days, non-stop... then 2 years editing!
Conrad Jungmann
I've been telling people I was going to someday write a novel for as far back as I remember. My mother is a writer and English teacher so I'm sure she had something to do with it as well.
Conrad Jungmann
EDGE OF REDFISH LAKE was very much inspired by my experience in the Alaska commercial fisheries many years ago. The story is fiction, of course, but many of the places, and some of the events are described as I remember them.
Conrad Jungmann
I'm spending the summer researching my next novel, which takes place in the roaring United States gold discovery period of the 1850's and 60's.
At the top of my towering pile is "Vigilante Days and Ways" by Nathaniel Langford and "Ghost Towns of the Old West" by Lambert Horn.
The former was given to me by my grandfather, Cecil Gates, along with a mind full of his old stories of the West, before he passed away many years ago. I've been fascinated by that period of history ever since.
At the top of my towering pile is "Vigilante Days and Ways" by Nathaniel Langford and "Ghost Towns of the Old West" by Lambert Horn.
The former was given to me by my grandfather, Cecil Gates, along with a mind full of his old stories of the West, before he passed away many years ago. I've been fascinated by that period of history ever since.
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