Ask the Author: M. Matheson
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M. Matheson
I make myself an observer of life going on around me, from the seemingly mundane to the marvelous, from the dreadfully boring to the amazing. There's a story hidden behind every person and every act. But if I forget, it's only because I permitted myself to become weighed down and distracted by the cares and worries of my own life. Even those bear stories worth telling.
M. Matheson
I have never had it. I may be stuck for how to connect to the next scene, but i have never been at a loss for what to write or say(laughs). I can write a decent story on the pencil sitting on my/yours/their table without much prior thought. I know it sounds arrogant, it's just the way it is.
M. Matheson
Only write because you have to. I don't mean as an avenue to income, but from some deep inner need to put down for other people to read your thoughts, ideas and observations whether that is in fiction which I believe fills that need best, or non-fiction memoir and historical stories and books.
Fiction does the best job of catheterization of inner thoughts, many you never even knew you had. My first book is a supernatural romp through my heart using fictional characters, but nearly all the events emanate from real events in my life. Even the most horrific ones.
Fiction does the best job of catheterization of inner thoughts, many you never even knew you had. My first book is a supernatural romp through my heart using fictional characters, but nearly all the events emanate from real events in my life. Even the most horrific ones.
M. Matheson
It is a book of non-fiction based on my experiences founding and pastoring an inner-city church in Sacramento, California. I call it Taking Jericho- climbing the mountain of impossible odds against your life.
M. Matheson
For a long time the thought of an Civil war era Irish Priest as the protagonist of a story percolated in my head and heart. From the outset his name was Lucky Mike MacKenzie and he would travel through wars of the world and centuries providing healing, grace and courage. Readers of my book will recognize him as the supernatural character that indeed fills those roles but mainly is the silver thread that connects all the other characters from the Civil War up until modern day. He didn't end up as the protagonist though, Billy Hartman got that role.
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