Writer Spotlight: Doug Howery
Author Doug Howery
Content Title :: The Grass Sweeper God
So what's it about? ::
Whores, harlots & homosexuals...God, guns & gays...
The book centers around a close-knit family of drinking, fighting,
womanizing with mental and physical cruelty to women forming a main theme,
juxtaposed beside nation-wide societal change: The historical NYC gay
riots of 1969; Stonewall.
In the Author's Words ::
Words inspire...be they the fruit on the tree or
the poison on the page...I'm inspired with word craft. I have been noted
for having a poison pen. But, I'm a storyteller. If there's poison in the
brew, words are the charcoal to absorb the poison. The poison has to be
diagnosed first. Writing is the diagnosis consisting of full, rounded &
fleshed out characters. A plot that moves in, around & back onto itself.
My words are my life just as the stories I tell about real-life people with
real hard-core passions and prejudices. I give voice to those in society
that have been marginalized. My word craft puts the downtrodden center
stage for the whole world to hate or love & to feel some empathy or even
sympathy. Diversity fights adversity...
My writing genre is family saga.
From the book :: Chapter One 1950s
Book Excerpt:
This godforsaken place was the backwoods of Appalachia coal mining
country. And being sixteen meant a cultured age of about ten or twelve,
really. Especially if you were retarded and rode the short bus. This
meant riding a school bus designated specifically as the retarded kids’
bus, but it also meant boarding normal kids alongside retards at each bus
stop. The only real specificity: If you were trapped inside the wrong
body—if you were a young man who wanted to be a young woman—you were the
bull’s eye in the kids’ cross-hairs because you were the biggest, retarded
mongoloid excrement of ‘em all, really. Excrement being too proper of a
word: Specifically you got the ‘cultured’ and ‘godforsaken’ shit kicked
outtaya every school day by retards and rednecks. Proper language left
this place along with any civility once branded as a retarded freak,
really. Indifference to proper language and civility ruled the day, and
brutality beat the night.
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Your favorite author (s)? ::
Steven King
Any tips for aspiring writers? ::
Persevere. Don't give up no matter how
much your craft is criticized. Take the helpful advice. Learn from the
critics. Just know; no one can or will walk a mile in your shoes; it's a
lonely profession, so snuggle up to the words on the page; they're your
mile long walk. There's no failure if you dust yourself off & get back up
on the horse, huh.
much your craft is criticized. Take the helpful advice. Learn from the
critics. Just know; no one can or will walk a mile in your shoes; it's a
lonely profession, so snuggle up to the words on the page; they're your
mile long walk. There's no failure if you dust yourself off & get back up
on the horse, huh.
What's on the Horizon? ::
Screenplay. I am in the process of adapting my
novel entitled, The Grass Sweeper God into a screenplay. The screenplay
version will be entitled, Dorothy of Oz Coal Camp.
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