Why I Write

            My initial reason to start my blog was to share my writing. To do that, I started off with my boot camp experience while in the Navy. Now that has been shared, I will be adding more Navy stories as well as posts about writing. I know, reading posts about writing, sounds fun. But, it can be, you just have to take a step back.

I chose the name of the blog for a reason, experiences give inspiration. My Navy experiences have given me the inspiration to share those. Other experiences I have lived gave me the inspiration to write a romance book. Yes, I did just say I wrote a romance book. Well, a series really, but I did write it.

I combined two separate experiences in my book. First, let me talk a little about it, and you will see where it came from. It is a story about sailors. Yes, it’s a Navy book. Well, not really a Navy book, so to speak, but ti is a romance set in the Navy. It centers on three friends who met in boot camp and who have spent their careers together so far. One particular sailor, Emily Rosen, is driven and has a big ambitious career goal, to be a Command Master Chief on a destroyer.

What does that mean? I set the story in 1994, and women were just starting to serve on combatant ships. Emily is assigned to a tender, repair ship. But, she wants to be the top enlisted person on a destroyer, at the time that was a lofty unheard of goal. But, she is driven to do it. She wants to make it. She has had a hard time with relationships and has put ant of those ideas on the back burner.  

While leaving for a 6-month deployment, she sees a man on another ship taking pictures. She is feeling lonely, so she waves to him, he waves back. Later she tells herself to forget about it and concentrate on the Navy. In Naples 2 months later, she is needed to fix a problem on a destroyer. She does this and meets another sailor Gene Bain. They fix the problem, and Gene invites her to lunch on his ship.

Gene is not in the market either, because he is recently divorced after choosing the Navy over his wife. And, with this being a romance, you can see eventually they become involved, which they do to a certain level. The Navy being the Navy, they are separated.

OK, you can see my Navy experience playing into this. But, another experience played into it as well. It is my relationship with my wife, Valerie. In nearly every way, Valerie is Emily and I am Gene. She had told me to write a book about our relationship, but I just never could. I finally tied two separate aspects of my life into one story, which will span several books.

At the moment, book #1, “In The Stars,” is being edited and has a tentative release date of mid-2021.

Two experiences that formed one inspiration. The lesson here is if you want to write but do not know what to write, look at yourself. You have stories that can be interesting.