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...a memorable out-of-body experience.
Kent Politsch
The inspiration for Blood Anger came from a picture of the Obama family. Presidents of the United States come from common stock among American lives. As I looked at the president, the first lady, and their daughters, I asked what do they like? How do they relate to living in a fish bowl the world wants to see every day? What would happen to their lives if terrorism interrupted their lives? Who would the heroes be if they were made vulnerable? What if it was one of them who showed enormous bravery?
While I wrote, news items kept stimulating my imagination, such as failures among the Secret Service ranks. Old news items surfaced in my memory that made me think about how the world reacted to kidnappings and terror from decades earlier in our history. All I had to do is organize the sensations into a story and put it into today's context.
While I wrote, news items kept stimulating my imagination, such as failures among the Secret Service ranks. Old news items surfaced in my memory that made me think about how the world reacted to kidnappings and terror from decades earlier in our history. All I had to do is organize the sensations into a story and put it into today's context.
Kent Politsch
I am inspired by the truth. True life stories are amazing. Everyone has the ability to be a hero. All of us live one mistake away from tragedy.
I look at the lives of people I have encountered in life -- famous people and ordinary people -- and I see what they've endured in order to succeed or simply to survive.
Life is inspiring; my job is to write it down. Make it fiction, but make it real, so everyone can see how stimulating it is to be here even for the short while we get to stay. That's what inspires me to write. Life. Get it while you can.
I look at the lives of people I have encountered in life -- famous people and ordinary people -- and I see what they've endured in order to succeed or simply to survive.
Life is inspiring; my job is to write it down. Make it fiction, but make it real, so everyone can see how stimulating it is to be here even for the short while we get to stay. That's what inspires me to write. Life. Get it while you can.
Kent Politsch
I intended from the beginning of the Global Anchor series to write at least three stories around the principal characters. I assumed it would take me at least three books to develop a technique -- a writing style -- that I could test in the marketplace of readers. After the third, I have other stories in mind, a play I want to write, but I also may continue with Jack Fitzgerald on new adventures.
My creative writing classes in college were among my favorite, but that was 45 years ago. Still, since then I've lived with my fingers on a keyboard writing news, features, and public relations materials, making myself eligible now for social security. Instead of retirement, I'm launching something new that I also enjoy; something that has given me an energy boost. Writing fiction.
I consider myself a rookie author with significant life experience.
I love telling stories. I'm excited to receive feedback, which makes me better and encourages me to keep writing. Along the way, I hope to entertain folks. I'd like to make readers my friends and followers.
To tell them what's next after Blood Anger, Fitzgerald goes off on a new adventures when the Pentagon calls on his services. He and his former military friends encounter thrills and dangers dealing with international threats from the bad guys battling each other for international power. The bad guys do battle by attempting to gain control of critical commodities that everyone needs.
Many of the same characters introduced in Global Anger and Blood Anger return, although there are interesting betrayals and twists still ahead.
I don't have a working title for the new piece, which I hope to have ready by early 2016, but there's a good chance "Anger" could work it's way in. Meantime, I will be concentrating on making my final year or years with USDA enjoyable and fruitful. After that it's full-time author.
My creative writing classes in college were among my favorite, but that was 45 years ago. Still, since then I've lived with my fingers on a keyboard writing news, features, and public relations materials, making myself eligible now for social security. Instead of retirement, I'm launching something new that I also enjoy; something that has given me an energy boost. Writing fiction.
I consider myself a rookie author with significant life experience.
I love telling stories. I'm excited to receive feedback, which makes me better and encourages me to keep writing. Along the way, I hope to entertain folks. I'd like to make readers my friends and followers.
To tell them what's next after Blood Anger, Fitzgerald goes off on a new adventures when the Pentagon calls on his services. He and his former military friends encounter thrills and dangers dealing with international threats from the bad guys battling each other for international power. The bad guys do battle by attempting to gain control of critical commodities that everyone needs.
Many of the same characters introduced in Global Anger and Blood Anger return, although there are interesting betrayals and twists still ahead.
I don't have a working title for the new piece, which I hope to have ready by early 2016, but there's a good chance "Anger" could work it's way in. Meantime, I will be concentrating on making my final year or years with USDA enjoyable and fruitful. After that it's full-time author.
Kent Politsch
My advice for aspiring writers is to write.
Kent Politsch
I get frustrated as I grow older for one reason -- I can't remember all that I want to remember. But when I write, I am constantly thinking and creating, which fills me with energy, so that age is meaningless and my memory woes are irrelevant. I'm stimulated when I sit quietly, imagine, and draft a story. I disappear in body and exist only as thought -- no ego, no anxiety, no physical connections, only fantasy for a purpose -- to tell a story that will entertain, I hope inspire, and I hope stimulate others' thoughts so they don't get hung up like me by physical issues over which we have no control.
Kent Politsch
I deal with writer's block by reading. Sometimes it's reading other writers, but most of the time it's reading news. I'm stimulated by current events. I imagine circumstances seldom revealed in the story, but I know as a newsman exist. They're details that someone controls for a reason. As a journalist, it was my job to find out the reason. As a fiction writer, I take it upon myself to create the reason. I love real news.
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