This book is my midlife crisis.
I got divorced at the age of 40. Leaving a bad marriage enabled me to enjoy a crisis of identity that led to the success of Backstage, which in turn prompted me to write this book.
But why write this book now, at this age and stage of my life? I used to be able to write to entertain, but then I went to grad school and learned to write in a formal, academic style. I wondered if I had permanently dulled those neural pathways that were involved in writing goofy short stories when I was younger, especially the one that ended up giving the kids in my high school something else to make fun of other than my intense social awkwardness, lankiness, glasses, and braces?
This excerpt is from the book Lord of the Files, published by Thought Pilots.
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2 comments:
Wow, that was quite a sad story....sitting her with my 11 year old daughter and our thoughts are tha in todays school that story would probably have made you the coolest kid in your class...so you were just way to cool and ahead of all the other kids! But just look at you now! :)
LOL!
K.S.
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