An Encounter in New Mexico (Article) - 5/21/2017 6:26:53 AM
Certainly a sad encounter. The old man was clearly a bit delusional. My experience was much different.
I was driving through Alberta near Medicine Hat when I saw an old man walking beside the road. I hesitated at first, but then took a chance and pulled over to see if he wanted a ride. He did, and got in.
He had a paper bag with "his lunch." He said he was going to the "Indian Doings" (I learned later when we got there, a rodeo) up ahead and was grateful for the ride. He told me one story before we got there.
He and other members of his tribe were hired to do a movie one time. They were supposed to get into canoes and paddle as part of the scene. They thought it quite funny because, while they felt like they were born on horses, they had never been in canoes. Still, he said, that they learned how to paddle and made good money playing like Indians they never were.
He begged me to join him at the, "Doings," but I had planned to make about 300 miles more that day and had to decline.
Ron
Nathan's Mother (Article) - 5/10/2017 4:55:35 AM
Well done sticking to it, Charles
Nathan's Mother (Article) - 5/5/2017 6:33:29 AM
I write from the seat of my pants, mostly. That's why I can rarely give an in depth preview of anything I'm working on. In this new effort, Edgar Blythe owns a neighborhood store. He daily visits wife, Mary Blythe, who is an institutionalized Alzheimer's patient. The regulars who visit to share coffee and camaraderie provide much of the color and drama. I've already written of one cast member. He is Irving Bradbury, who is proud he shares the name of a famous author. There is no comparison. Irving has written just one book and has been five years peddling it. In the course of my novel, he sells the book and becomes an international celebrity, netting a movie and theme park in Florida. Anyway, I am still populating the book and there will be as varied a crowd as I can conjure. It took nearly two years to complete my last book.
Nathan's Mother (Article) - 5/5/2017 4:27:23 AM
The stuff of legends. Failed book is discovered and made into a movie. Any book about making money or overcoming great odds is always a success because so many are clamoring for bad outcome.
Your synopsis of the book above has its ending clipped off…
Ron
