Morning adoring masses,
You should write about what you know, hence none of my main characters are police officers, for instance. Many of them - probably most of them - are soldiers and that's because I was a soldier.
Brought up on a diet of improbable war stories told to me by my dad, and living in Northern Ireland with troops on the street etc, it was little wonder that I joined the Army. But I must point out that living in Bangor, we rarely saw any troops. Day trips to Belfast however gave me the opportunity to gawp at soldiers and so the wheels were set in motion, the library of experience established...
Published on November 22, 2021 00:22