Ask the Author: Craig Shreve
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Craig Shreve
Thank you! The Shut Up and Write group that was operating near me is no longer active, unfortunately. I do sometimes still show up to the Saturday group, but with it being a bit further away, its hit and miss. I'll likely post some videos about the story on IG account once I am in Panama. I'm looking forward to the trip!
Craig Shreve
I dislike flowery romance. I'm more interested by what happens after love and passion have faded, and couples have settled into dealing with the practicalities of maintaining a relationship.
I love the fictionalized portrayal of George Mallory, the obsessive Everest expeditionist, and his wife Ruth in Tanis Ridout's Above All Things. The story follows Mallory's ill-fated 1924 summit attempt, while also tracking Ruth's attempt to keep their day-to-day life stable in his absence.
There is a really fascinating juxtaposition between his immensely dangerous pursuit of the summit, and her equally though much more quietly courageous effort back home.
I love the fictionalized portrayal of George Mallory, the obsessive Everest expeditionist, and his wife Ruth in Tanis Ridout's Above All Things. The story follows Mallory's ill-fated 1924 summit attempt, while also tracking Ruth's attempt to keep their day-to-day life stable in his absence.
There is a really fascinating juxtaposition between his immensely dangerous pursuit of the summit, and her equally though much more quietly courageous effort back home.
Craig Shreve
This is very simple for me - I write about things that I want to learn more about. I don't write to try to tell people my point of view on something, I write to explore topics that I am interested in from multiple points of view. Writing for me is a process of discovery, and I think the story that ends up coming out is really the story of what I learned during the writing.
Craig Shreve
There were a number of civil rights era cases in the late 90's and early 2000's that were re-investigated, leading to recent convictions for decades old crimes. Most notable were the sentencing of Byron de la Beckwith 31 years after the assassination of Medgar Evers, and Edgar Ray Killen 41 years after the killings of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. De la Beckwith was 74 when he was convicted. Killen was 80. It was fascinating to me to see these and others going to jail for crimes which they had long since thought they had gotten away with. The reaction was interesting as well, with some saying justice had finally come and others saying no good was accomplished by digging these things up again, and the reaction was by no means split along racial lines. I started thinking of what life was like during the decades in between for both the victim's families, and for the perpetrators, and that is what lead me to this story.
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