I am responsible for every keystroke
that has gone into designing this website,
but I am not a programmer.
For some reason this section turns into a
hard-to-read script when viewed on mobile.
However it can be viewed just fine on your computer.
Sorry about that. I am working on it.
-Bob Smith
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Books
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I had excellent writing instruction in high school, enabling me to write my way to good grades and a University of Chicago education. There, my fellow students used to pass my term papers around and professors chased me across campus urging me to write. So I took their advice.
…about twenty years later.
In the aftermath of 9/11 and the 2000 election fiasco, I got the ‘cancer call’ from Mom. That night I went to my auditor’s job and began what would turn into “CHNC” and “PoE”, ostensibly to put in writing, for her, an idea of where I planned to take this thing once she was gone. In another of those statistical improbabilities that seem to litter my life, she passed away the very weekend I brought the finished manuscript home from the printers. She never read a word.
As for the novel, its writing too is one heckuva story waiting to be told, taking off and running with a story I’d been carrying around all my life.
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Fiction or non-fiction, the songwriter and copywriter in me isn’t satisfied
unless every word, every sentence, every paragraph is powerful:
…a turn of phrase here. …some alliteration there. Most of all a rhythm.
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Follow the links below to read more.
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Never Has So Much Been Stolen, From So Many, By So Few, So Quickly
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A Practical Handbook
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A Novel
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(Partisanship Disclaimer: I can trace everything I am and every opportunity I’ve been given back to the FDR Greatest Generation policies that enabled a working man to raise a stable family in a stable community, keeping them healthy, educated, and full of idealistic optimism for the future. Thus, I have to admit a certain bias for ‘that’ America and the way it treated its people. Both Parties. ‘This’ America, ‘Family Values/Homeland Security/Hate Yer Neighbor’ America scares and appalls me. Both Parties.)