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Bought Two Books Today

I bought two westerns. A new one and a Max Brand from the 1920s. I grew up loving western books and movies. I want my next project, after Sam Paine, to be a western story. Like the comic strip about Sam, I am not certain I can pull it off, but I want to try. 

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I Write

My stories more often than not have a negative bent. Death and tragedy control the outcome. I suppose this has the sort of huge impact that causes readers to back off and editors to pass them over. No matter. I write what I experience. I no longer have faith in the human experiment. The golden ages we sometimes experience are tempered with violence and increasing war making capabilities. These days war strategies and fighting have become cottage industries. Governments are warming to space militarization. Meanwhile, the masses are increasingly marginalized and impoverished. 1984 meets Brave New World.     

Progress

My story of Sam Paine has reached a point in which Sam is on the verge of escaping. He missed the opportunity to do so with money in his pocket. If caught before he achieves certain objectives, he will be returned, no questions asked. 

I can only write in short bursts. So I revisit the work countless times per day. Since I am retired, time is no big consideration.

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Father's Day

I last saw my father at the age of three. Fifty years later, I learned he was murdered for his car, in 1948. After ten years spent with an abusive step father, I was left totally fatherless. Author Phillip Wylie became a sort of unknowing father figure to me, for many years. I grew up not caring enough about my father to check on him, for he and my mother had a rough relationship, before she ditched him to join the Okie flood to California. I think I was over forty before I began to feel a need to know the man. It was a feeling of being left unmoored on one of two pillars, the other representing my mother. I don't think one can feel complete without knowing both sides that contributed to their origin. I salute my father on this day. I hope he had a good time of it in the short time he had after we left him.

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