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Chuck Radda
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Chuck Radda
After retiring from my high school English position, I worked five years as an adjunct at a small college that had no real admissions policy. The student population was all over the place—brilliant and dedicated young men and women intermingled with others who had barely escaped high school. The college president at the time was a man of high principles and integrity, but I wondered what would happen if someone less honest were to run a place like that. Absolute Truth evolved out of that.
My more recent book, Flood Moon, is a kind of homage to the beauty of Wyoming's Teton Range by way of a small town at the base of the Absarokas in Montana. The plot itself took shape as I read more and more about the raping of the state by petroleum companies and the way Washington seems hell-bent on transforming our national parks into oil fields.
My more recent book, Flood Moon, is a kind of homage to the beauty of Wyoming's Teton Range by way of a small town at the base of the Absarokas in Montana. The plot itself took shape as I read more and more about the raping of the state by petroleum companies and the way Washington seems hell-bent on transforming our national parks into oil fields.
Chuck Radda
I don't—not for my serious writing. It's just what I do. For blogging though—ten minutes of the local news or any political debate is inspiration enough, maybe too much.
Chuck Radda
1. A sequel to my first novel Dark Time
2. A revenge novel 35 years in the plotting.
3. Something new and, for me at least, very different—a piece that seemingly offers multiple points of view, all of which funnel down to a most unreliable narrator. Don't know where it's going yet—only about 20,000 words in.
2. A revenge novel 35 years in the plotting.
3. Something new and, for me at least, very different—a piece that seemingly offers multiple points of view, all of which funnel down to a most unreliable narrator. Don't know where it's going yet—only about 20,000 words in.
Chuck Radda
Before I retired I was a high school English teacher and treated all my students as aspiring writers. Perhaps I overestimated at times.☺ But I always gave them two pieces of advice: 1, read; 2, write about what you know. In later years I modified the second to "write about what you don't know." It's less "safe" and makes the person (me at least) a better researcher and allows him to become conversant with a great many more topics.
Chuck Radda
Writing. I don't mean to sound flippant, but everything else—promoting the book, keeping FB pages active, updating home pages—in short, becoming a salesman (I have a whole new empathy for Willy Loman) just drains you. I'm envious of the the highly successful writers who have agents to do all this.
Chuck Radda
I tell myself there's no such thing and try to do something entirely different from the project on which I'm "stuck." Maybe write a letter to a friend or edit some old Piece with which I'm no longer enamored. Sometimes I'll make a blog entry or read a few pages of Dickens. In extreme situations I'll make another cup of tea.
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