Author With No Boundaries

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In order to be an author with no boundaries I had to make a decision when I began writing and publishing my stories; either not be one and concern myself with how readers will perceive my work and write only in a polite manner hoping they will like it, or, not strive so much to be well received as much as understood. I chose the second pathway to be reckoned with as a competent story teller. You see, it really isn't about volume or quantity with me, that isn't who I am. Instead it is about really being the same person I have always been and being satisfied that I never had to change a word or a thought or an emotion to tell what I hope are good stories. Whether they are or not is up to the reader. Those who do follow my work expect that, or they should. Before I was a writer I was a cop and before that a radio broadcaster and before that just someone wondering what my future would hold. That was a lot of years ago and through each one I met a lot of people from all walks of life who left me with volumes of stories to tell.

Some of them are about those people and what I took from them or they from me and some are only about places or things, but all of them are topics that meant something to me somewhere on my journey to becoming a writer. My work may have angered as many as any who felt nothing at all after reading it but those readers are in my rear view mirror and may never be disappointed again by anything else I have written or will write; they didn't find what they may have hoped for and they probably found something they didn't expect or couldn't understand, but that's okay because it doesn't change anything for either of us, at least not in anyway that matters much to me. Does that sound arrogant of me? It may to some but arrogance is necessary for a writer who hopes to write with no boundaries. What some might see as arrogant I see as brutal honesty and I would rather deal with truth wherever it goes than to leave anyone guessing or thinking I write and publish books only wanting to be liked.

"finding...True Hollow Road"  is a short story that I wrote and published and somewhere down the road I hope to write the sequel to it; anyone who has read this one could probably imagine what would be in the follow-up to this book because finding the road was only the story of why I wanted to, the saga cannot continue just yet, but I believe it will because I believe it has to. I wrote and published 18 books before this one and of  them all, this one is my favorite because this one is the closest to my heart. "finding...True Hollow Road"  is the shortest book in my catalogue of personal compositions but it needn't be any longer than it is. Only a few more than thirty pages in length but if I had chosen to write 300 pages it could not have possibly told anymore than I felt was necessary. Many writers go for the length of a story believing that more words and more pages can better tell it and that is true sometimes but not all of the time. I would not have released this one if I didn't honestly think I captured all I wanted to in it.

As a reader I would rather invest in ten pages that leave me feeling what the writer shared than 500 pages if it told the same story without offering more to it. In this regard I feel as if "finding...True Hollow Road"  accomplished something very special for me; that as a writer I can set up a tale that cuts to the chase in a hurry without a lot of clutter and tell it in a way that delivers it to the end and stays good from start to finish. A good book doesn't have to contain a lot of pages to tell a good story if the writer believes the story is good, and when one can do that then the author has pulled off something that required a measure of skill as well as confidence in his work. This one has elements that might anger a few subjects in it but keep in mind, I have chosen to write stories with no boundaries. There is clear evidence in this one that I did not search for ways to be nice to anyone for the sake of not offending anyone. If I did, then the book may have required a few more hundred pages and if I did that then my reasons for going in search of the road would have left the reader wondering why I wanted to, because none of us go in search of anything hoping to be disappointed.

I found True Hollow Road and this book will explain why I went in search of it. Just an old country road out in the middle of nowhere.

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