Ask the Author: Robert Hobkirk
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Robert Hobkirk
Book people. The die hard compulsive reader is someone I only imagine what they are about. I don't know any personally. I imagine they are like video game geeks, so they aren't my peeps. I don't know any other writers personally, so I can't say they're my peeps either. I really don't have the need to belong to a group. I guess I'm more like the Lone Ranger. Tonto is enough. Better yet - Tonta.
Robert Hobkirk
My favorite thing is baseball on the radio. John Miller, the announcer for the Giants is my favorite. How old school is that? I despise what they've done to baseball with the cameras and replay. Just because you've got technology, doesn't mean that you have to use it. They're taking the poetry out of baseball. Going to live events isn't my thing. I don't like large crowds, or mobs, or the guy who decides to wear a big hat and sits down in front, blocking the view, or the high price for a Coke. I'm still looking for "my Peeps."
Robert Hobkirk
Hi Linda,
After the Kings got beat by LA in the playoffs, I stopped being an NBA fan. It was obvious Stern wanted the bigger TV team in the championship. It was in the Bee that a ref admitted the game was fixed, but the NBA said horse-puckey. It was fun back in the day, though. For 8 bucks and the delusion that we might have a chance some day. You still want to be my friend?
After the Kings got beat by LA in the playoffs, I stopped being an NBA fan. It was obvious Stern wanted the bigger TV team in the championship. It was in the Bee that a ref admitted the game was fixed, but the NBA said horse-puckey. It was fun back in the day, though. For 8 bucks and the delusion that we might have a chance some day. You still want to be my friend?
Robert Hobkirk
Everyday there seems to be something happening around me - usually the actions of others, or a memory - that will be the inspiration for a poem or short story. Sometimes the short story will be the inspiration for a novel. This happened with "A Sure Thing" from Blind Date; "A Sure Thing" became a novel, Tommy's Exodus, which will be out early in 2016.
Writing seems to be it's own inspiration. The more I do it on a regular daily basis, the more the inspiration.
Writing seems to be it's own inspiration. The more I do it on a regular daily basis, the more the inspiration.
Robert Hobkirk
Writing is a wide open door that anyone can walk through. You don't need money. There is plenty of scraps of paper lying about, and if you know where to look, you can find a lost pencil or two on the ground. You don't need an expensive education if you can get a library card. With print on demand publishing, everything you write can be shared with the world.
It's a great outlet for your imagination. When there is no one around to tell your story to, your word processor or your notebook is there to listen.
It's a great outlet for your imagination. When there is no one around to tell your story to, your word processor or your notebook is there to listen.
Robert Hobkirk
Coffee. Just sit down and write the quota of words for the day. Don't worry about the quality. Just write and it will begin to flow - got to pump the handle if you want water.
Robert Hobkirk
Life experiences. Sometimes reality really is stranger than fiction.
Robert Hobkirk
Get a good day time job. If you're writing to make money, you're writing for the wrong reason.
Robert Hobkirk
I'm working on Tommy in the Wilderness, my second novel. I'll have everything ready to go by the end of this year and launch it in the fall of '16. I'm about 50,000 words into it, and where it stops, who knows.
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