Ask the Author: James Ostby
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James Ostby
I wrote another literary work. Nobody read it!
James Ostby
I'm doing some "heavy hitting": a literary nonfiction book that includes the word "Rat" in the title.
When you come to northeastern Montana, you come to nowhere, and there's nothing. Nothing but sky, space, open prairie, wheat fields, and isolation. Deserted homesteads and small, dying towns. Sun, wind, rain, and snow. Solitude. And memories. Time to think. Too much time. It's been quite a journey. We all take different paths: winding, convoluted, tortuous, . . . , often regressive. Some of us are cut short of our goal early in life, some of us are blessed with more time and higher intellectual plateaus. And some of us pause to look back with more skepticism in order to catch more realistic glimpses of our final destination. Many are sure of their destination, some of us are not.
This book is about physical, philosophical, spiritual, and human limits, and the frustrations that arise when those limits are met.
I'm doing some "heavy hitting": a literary nonfiction book that includes the word "Rat" in the title.
When you come to northeastern Montana, you come to nowhere, and there's nothing. Nothing but sky, space, open prairie, wheat fields, and isolation. Deserted homesteads and small, dying towns. Sun, wind, rain, and snow. Solitude. And memories. Time to think. Too much time. It's been quite a journey. We all take different paths: winding, convoluted, tortuous, . . . , often regressive. Some of us are cut short of our goal early in life, some of us are blessed with more time and higher intellectual plateaus. And some of us pause to look back with more skepticism in order to catch more realistic glimpses of our final destination. Many are sure of their destination, some of us are not.
This book is about physical, philosophical, spiritual, and human limits, and the frustrations that arise when those limits are met.
James Ostby
I think, plan, and daydream for a long time.
James Ostby
I think innate intelligence and a good education are prerequisites.
Studying the craft of writing, all the way down to grammar and punctuation. Much of the work today is awful in that regard
Most important, I believe that literary writers are like heavy hitters in boxing: they are born, not made.
Studying the craft of writing, all the way down to grammar and punctuation. Much of the work today is awful in that regard
Most important, I believe that literary writers are like heavy hitters in boxing: they are born, not made.
James Ostby
For me the best part is having a passion in life.
James Ostby
Every book I write is the result of at least a year of planning, so in the scheme of the entire effort, most of the writer's block comes in that preliminary stage. Therefore the block is a small total of the overall time.
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