Thoughts & Stories
Unfiltered thoughts from the road, behind-the-scenes stories, and observations about life, writing, and everything in between.
It started as a joke. 'Wouldn't it be something,' I said to my wife, 'if I took this book on the road and visited every state?' She looked at me like I'd lost my mind. Maybe I had.
Read Full StoryEveryone thinks writing a memoir is just sitting down and telling your story. It's not. It's digging through old wounds, calling relatives to fact-check, and realizing you remembered half the details wrong.
You can't rush a crop. You plant, you water, you wait. Writing is the same way. Some days the words flow like rain. Other days, you're just staring at dirt hoping something sprouts.
I've been traveling to bookstores for years, long before I had a book to sell. There's something sacred about a place where people still believe in the power of the written word.
My mama used to say, 'John, you catch more flies with honey.' Maybe so. But you catch more honest readers with truth. Here's why I write the way I do.
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