![]() ![]() I’d mentally recorded dozens of “moments”-incidents, characters, and situations that were amazing illustrations of both the tragedy and absurdity of the times. I knew it was an important piece of history. I’d been on campus during the most turbulent years of the Vietnam War-1969-1970-the critical time frame of the First Draft Lottery and Kent State. In my case, with my first novel, The Fourteenth of September, I’d always thought I knew where the story came from. ![]() A real-life person you wonder about, a situation you read about in the paper, an intriguing name you feel would make a great character, something that keeps gnawing at your imagination-there are as many ways as there are plots. Stories, including those that develop into novels, begin in all kinds of ways. ![]()
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