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Ppw Newsmag Jan 06.Qxp Words of Writing Wisdom From the Editor e page 2 from Johnny D. Boggs n i z By Charles Rush Jack Schaefer and Focus on the a Dorothy M. Johnson Details g page 3 he 2006 Pikes were a big influence for a Peak Writers their Western short Conference is stories, a far cry from M February Write s T Brain honored to have Johnny the predominantly pulp fiction of their day. I w Page 3 D. Boggs as the Friday e night featured speaker have several friends in the business. David N Strategic Goal and as a faculty member Setting during the conference. Marion Wilkinson. Mike page 4 Johnny Boggs is one of Blakely. Ol’ Max Evans. the few Western writers I’m always impressed by Before You Begin to have won both the their work. I read a lot, Your Novel prestigious Spur Award from Jack London to page 5 from the Western John Jakes and Russell Writers of America, and Banks to Les Savage Jr. March Write Brain the Western Heritage Reading everything, and page 5 Award from the National Cowboy and reading with a critical, constructive eye. Western Heritage Museum for his Why did this phrase work? What’s Spotlight on fiction. He is the author of 27 wrong with this dialogue? How would I Rupert Holmes published novels. Charles Rush, PPW have structured this sentence? Why page 6 vice president, conducted the following didn’t I think of this story? Look at how interview with Johnny Boggs. this transition flows. Write Now PPW: How did you start your PPW: I was impressed with your page 7 writing career? voice in your new novel, Camp Ford. BOGGS: Well, if you don’t count How did you develop your style, or March All-Day selling stories to my classmates in third voice? Workshop with grade, my background is in newspaper BOGGS: A lot of experimentation. Dave Moja I took several theater classes in college, page 7 journalism. I worked in newspaper sports departments as a reporter and editor. I so I often approach a character the was also dabbling in writing short fiction same way I would as an actor. It’s a Hot Topics cliche, WHAT’S YOUR MOTIVA- page 8 and nonfiction for various magazines, eventually tried my hand at novels, and TION?, but it works for me. Also, I left the newspaper world in 1998 to probably had 15 published short stories make a living writing on my own. before I seriously tackled my first novel. One thing I’ve learned is that official VOLUME IV, ISSUE 1 PPW: When did you first develop January 2006 an interest in writing Westerns and it’s harder, much harder, to write a publication novels of the West? good short story than to write a good of the BOGGS: I always had an interest in novel, so that is great training. I don’t the West, which first came from TV want to write the same story again. I Pikes Peak shows and movies—I skipped school to vary settings, time period, characters, Writers watch ‘Fort Apache’ on TV—and first viewpoints, structure, plot. Part of that tried writing Western stories in junior is to keep me fresh, and to keep, I high and high school. I’ve also always hope, readers guessing. been interested in history, so I knew PPW: How important is your These are not early that I wanted to write Western research for a book like Camp Ford? “ novels solidly grounded in history. How much did you do? books, lumps of PPW: Did you have certain authors BOGGS: A ton. I’m a history buff. I or mentors that influenced you? How travel when I can, read microfilm lifeless paper, but did they? copies until my eyes are blurry. I love BOGGS: Mark Twain, Alexander old newspapers for not only facts but a minds alive on the Dumas and Charles Dickens are sense of place and language. Yet this is among my favorites, Twain and something I can’t stress enough: At shelves. Dickens for their voice, their dialogue, some point your imagination MUST ” Dumas for the thrill of the adventure. —Gilbert Highet continued on page 2 given you positive feedback on your former like vacuuming dust bunnies from under From the Editor columns. You know you can do this.” my bed—a task that will distract the Boosted with confidence, I turn on my Monster at least for the moment. If I’m I’m the Queen of computer, open up my word processing smart, I’ll sneak back to my computer and Procrastination. program and stare at the blank page. I type type out 500 words as fast as I can. Sure, I have a lot a line or two. I finish the first paragraph. I Last issue we started the “Write Now” going on in my life. think to myself, yeah, that’s interesting. And column (see page 7) here in the PPW And, sure, I can then I’m interrupted. Not by my cats or my NewsMagazine. The point of freewriting always make husband, but by the Perfection Monster. exercises is to help all of us slay the excuses I have more “Are you crazy?” he yells at me. “What Perfection Monster and realize some of our important things to kind of crap are you feeding these folks? best writing comes from somewhere deep do than whatever Do you think they really want to listen to inside, way far away from any critics. I task it is I really need to accomplish. But to you dribble and drabble on and on about encourage you all to give freewriting a try, be honest, my procrastination is directly this? No one can relate to this junk.” whether it’s through the exercises related to my drive for perfection. What do I do? I cringe. I close my eyes presented in each issue, or at events such Can any of you relate? and take a deep breath. I rewrite one line. as our February Write Brain (see page 3). Let’s take, for instance, this column. Then another. The breathing didn’t help If I can keep my own suggestions in Every time my deadline rolls around, my with the Monster. I delete every word I’ve mind more often, perhaps (someday) I’ll head says, “Let’s sit down and pump this typed and start over with a new topic. have a new title, the Queen of puppy out. You know it won’t take you all Sometimes I turn off my computer and go Productivity. that long. It never really does. People have take on some utterly more important task In peace, Bimonthly NewsMagazine of the Pikes Peak writing community Words of Writing Wisdom from Johnny Boggs 4164 Austin Bluffs Pkwy 246 Colorado Springs, CO 80918 continued from page 1 e eight hours a day, longer when I’m on n i 719.531.5723 z take over. Research is great, but don’t get deadline. a E-mail: [email protected] g bogged down in minutia. PPW: What advice would you give to our a Web site: readers who hope to get that first novel M www.ppwc.net PPW: I noticed a change from your s w earlier Western novels to your latest, a novel published? e PPW Officers N of the West. Do you believe this reflects a BOGGS: Develop a thick skin, and President general change in Western writing by other never give up. Rewrite, revise, and rewrite. Chris Mandeville authors? Also, publishers fear the “one-shot” writer, Vice President Charles Rush BOGGS: Well, some readers definitely so as soon as the first novel is done, immedi- Secretary want their traditional Westerns. If they ately start on the next one. Chris Meyers didn’t, you wouldn’t still see Zane Grey, Max PPW: Once published, what is the Treasurer Brand and Louis L’Amour in print. But I greatest challenge for continuing to be Jennifer Webster-Valant think the future of the West is in new published? stories, new ideas, getting our product BOGGS: Sales talk. There’s no question beyond that stereotypical Western reader. about that. I don’t mean you have to be a Editor You see that with other writers today, but bestseller, but you have to work, and Kirsten Akens you also see publishers and writers unwilling produce. Market yourself. Consider yourself to take that leap, to try to tell a different as a marketable commodity. It’s a crappie Graphic Design Martha Lancaster Western story. job, but if you’re a midlist writer, or PPW: In your opinion, what does the beginning writer, it’s a key part of the future hold for Western writing? writing game. It’s a key to survival, but there BOGGS: Readership is declining for are no guarantees. This is one hard way to many categories, which concerns everyone, make a living. and the first line a publisher will typically drop is its Western line. The challenge for us Bio: Charles Rush has been associated with Pikes Peak Writers operates as a non-profit, tax exempt today is to get children interested in the the Pikes Peak Writers Conference for eight years. organization incorporated in November 2001 as the Pikes Peak West, in our history, and keep them He was the 2004 Conference Director and Writers. PPW NewsMagazine is a bimonthly publication serving interested from childhood to the young Deputy Director the two years previous. members of Pikes Peak Writers group. The opinions expressed Instrumental in organizing the Pikes Peak in PPW NewsMagazine don’t necessarily reflect those of the adult level and eventually as adults.
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