At 70 - A Novelist is Born

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You simply must read this - it's a real story about some made up stories. Fantastic.

You know by now, I'm compiling a list of 1,000 posts to read before you die. They're not my posts - they're yours. Read them all here (I don't have a thousand yet, but they are adding up).

The one linked above is found at The Globe and Mail - published in Ontario, Canada.

You watch - retired engineer Alan Bradley, now soon to be famous novelist - is going places, literally.

Some of his words:

"I consciously sat down one day and asked myself if I was going to cave in and become one of them. And I decided that, despite how hard it would be, I would
much rather just stay me.”

and

"I did a story about a man who married a dragon . . . I enjoyed that kind of thing – not sure if people knew what I was up to . . . But in Saskatoon you could do that.”

and then,

"The hardest part of writing,” he confides, “is sitting down. Once I'm there, I'm good – I write about 1,000 words a day . . . After 35 years in the television business,” he says with a smile, “it's really not that much pressure.”