Ask the Author: Kenneth W. Ford
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Kenneth W. Ford
Never had it. (Some semi-sentient software tells me that this answer is too short. So be it.)
Kenneth W. Ford
I enjoy not only the the physical object (or Kindle file) that is the product, but also the process itself -- from outlining to fashioning sentences to deciding between em dashes and parentheses.
Kenneth W. Ford
If you get pleasure in writing, write. If you have to force yourself to do it and you'd rather be doing something else, don't write.
Kenneth W. Ford
Good question! To quote Richard Preston, whom I once asked that question, "I am trolling." (I am 89. Maybe I have another book in me. Maybe I don't.)
Kenneth W. Ford
First by being a teacher and loving that profession. Teaching is the central thread in my writing.
Kenneth W. Ford
I am one of the few participants in the H-bomb development who is still living. It seemed timely for me to get something down on paper while I am still compos mentis. The book's three-stranded structure -- memoir, history, and nuclear physics -- just sort of evolved from vaguer initial ideas.
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