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- W330350461 abstract "Anyone who has looked in the card catalogue of the Children's Room, Drawer #9, BIOL BOOJ, may have wondered why Bonham , Frank happens to write on so many different subjects. These have included bees, boys, teenage suicide, skindiving, jungle warfare, missing persons, lovebirds, samurai swords, and many others. The secret of all this versatility is a low threshold of boredom, so that I must keep moving, like an itinerant cowboy, from one subject to another. A more professional-sounding explanation, and also true, would be that I like to keep abreast of my readers' interests. All this bird-dogging of backgrounds has meant a lot of work over the years. Yet I have been richly repaid. I have had to get out in the field and dig like a potato farmer, gathering ten times as much material as I can possibly use, because I hate writing with the gauge hovering on Empty. The dividends of all this field research, however, have been enormous. Early in my writing career, I discovered that it is impossible to explain something you don't understand yourself. The words thicken like gravy, but the meaning never comes clear. This may not sound like headline news, but a lot of writers, most of them probably one-bookers, never do learn it. With great effort and growing despair, they concoct scenes that sound as though they might have happened, instead of scenes that the reader believes must have happened. For there is no sleight-of-hand that will adequately disguise ignorance. Such ignorance makes a dull reader and heaps doubt and discouragement on the writer. Everyone suffers: the reader, who is bored; the writer who, because the necessary sense of authority eludes him or her, goes unhappily along quacking like a duck instead of singing like Pavarotti. How unnecessary. And how unfair to oneself as a writer." @default.
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