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With my novels, I made every effort to tell a good story and entertain, while weaving in my point of view on issues that I feel need to be addressed. I don't believe that I have any more novels in me now and I like to think it's because I've well said what I wanted to say. The focal point of my literary effort is my writing room, which houses among other items my personal computer, and that is where much of my time was spent while I worked on the novels. But the writing process carries on throughout the day whether I'm carving, gardening or walking along Walnut Creek. |
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The recent writing project I've undertaken, which I've titled PhotoJournal, portrays my daily life here on my one acre homestead. My various activities trend toward a common theme, which is to order my life so that I'm not dependent on any person or government, such that I am free, as Henry David Thoreau put it, "to follow the bent of my genius, however crooked it might be". With images and prose, PhotoJournal details a lifestyle which prioritizes personal growth and the laws of nature over societal expectations of success and acceptable behavior. I am finally in a place that I have long sought, where art and life, work and play, are one and the same. |
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All that being said, I do like my writing room very much and begin each day here at my desk well before most of my neighbors are awake. I'm amazed at how much there is to observe and write about on one acre of land. My desk is situated such that I have a wonderful view of Walnut Creek as the day dawns and I often see deer that are not bothered by my lights, lingering to browse in the floodplain. My writing room is indeed the focal point of my writing and along with Woodcarving Shoppe completes the picture of Studio on Walnut Creek. |
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