Ask the Author: Sam Moses
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Sam Moses
Never had it, because all my writing was on deadline, with tons of notes and research at my side.
Sam Moses
Travel, meeting and writing about exceptional people, with a license to pick their brains and souls, and learning from it.
Sam Moses
Sorry, no advice; all I know about is being a motojournalist and sportswriter, as it was in the 1970s. It was fun and easy. Lots of things were fun and easy, back then.
Sam Moses
I'm currently working on finishing my farm, on the edge of an eco village on the Indonesian island of Lombok, a two-story bamboo house with an ocean view, on a half acre with a mostly-mango orchard and a red barn with a hot-rod Honda scooter inside. I'm working on my fitness, swimming, and bodyboarding, a last gasp to be an athlete, at 76. I'm working on being a good person.
Sam Moses
The first time? I was inspired to write as a 20-year-old Seaman Apprentice on a U.S. Navy cruiser engaged in shore bombardment of South Vietnam. I wrote long letters home, about the lunacy and immorality of the war.
Sam Moses
It began as a covid lockdown project. I was stuck on the Colombian island of St. Andres, and decided to rewrite the 30-year-old manuscript; it was a story that needed to be told. Three thousand hours later ....
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