Goal
It’s interesting; as an author I’m often asked to provide a biography for one event or another. I do this, but these biographies are brief and skimpy, providing little information about what the author is really about. Often we can determine our affinity for a writer when we learn what makes that author tick—religion, philosophy, politics, athletics, and even hobbies. For example, I felt this way about Thomas Jefferson and Ayn Rand. The more I learned about them as people the more interested I became in reading their works.
Of course this can have its detriments, as we can often learn even more about ourselves and what we find important by also reading authors who hold philosophies that oppose our own.
Having so-babbled, allow me to provide some perspective on me and what my goal is for this website. First I’m right of center, small “l” libertarian, recovered/ing Catholic-animist, workout crazed, Harley-riding author. I wish to share my ideas and discuss my writing with anyone interested in an open and reasonable discussion or debate. I have two basic facets to my writing; there is the cop side where I comment on and discuss police issues. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been cornered at a party and asked all kinds of police questions. Why’d I get a ticket, why do cops do this…, why do cops do that…? Do cops really like coffee and donuts as much as they say?
Here I am; you have me trapped in a corner at a party—now let me have it. Ask me anything you like about police work. Bitch me out for that ticket you got that you, of course, didn’t deserve. I obviously don’t know everything, and I certainly can’t speak with absolute authority for all cops, but I can speak with authority on what I do. And I’ll give you my honest opinion without the, “cop-speak.” You know, the: “Well, your honor, the perpetrator retrieved the handgun from within his upper, outer, red-in-color, garment, which caused me to draw my service weapon from its holster, and elicited a loud verbal response from me. I instructed the perpetrator to immediately relinquish the weapon, lie on the ground, and assume a prone position.”
Nope. I’ll give it to you straight: “Well, your honor, the bad guy pulled his gun, so I pulled my gun. I ordered him to drop his gun and to plant his ass on the ground.”
The other portion of what we do here is, discuss our writing projects and careers, fiction and non-fiction, and our progress. Whether you’re a writer embarked upon your own path toward publication, you’re a published author, or you’re an avid, or hell even lukewarm, reader, I’d like to discuss my path and your path and see if there isn’t something we can all learn from each other as we march toward success.
So, make your comments and ask your questions. Remember, there are no dumb questions; only dumb questioners. Well, I’m only half kidding about that; there are indeed dumb questions. How do I know, because I’ve asked most of them myself. However, I learned long ago that I’d rather ask a dumb question now and appear dumb for a moment, than to not ask the question and continue on in ignorance.