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I started writing in a little gated community in Central Louisiana called Hunt Correctional Center. I ran across the book of a friend called, "Pecan Candy and Huck-a-Bucks" while hiding in the prison library from a convict I borrowed food from. I read the first few pages and decided to take it back to the Dormitory and read it. I loved it, so I decided to write. I failed terribly in the beginning, because I didn't know much about English mechanics. But a fight that landed me in lockdown for two years and two years of books on English, Grammar, Creative Writing and Literature solved all of my problems. I started on my first novel, then the second, then a collection of poems, then my memoirs. Fallen Levee is my first published piece, but it the grandchild of two generations of stories. I love to write. I love to read. I can care less about the industry. I strive to be an engineer of the written word.
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