Paksworld

But I’m telling you anyway.   One of the ways you get multi-sensory accuracy into a work is to get it into your life.   Back when I was first writing for publication, I was immersed in a busy life that included regular doses of excitement and gore: I was a volunteer with the county EMS, and our station lay between a military base in a dry county and the nearest bars.   Car wrecks (lots), fires, explosions, fights,  death by violence and death that came as quietly as a sigh.   If it’s part of a human and it breaks, bleeds, or leaks–I’ve seen it.  I also had a rideable horse then, and rode almost daily.

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