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Will Hobbs
American
Author
Born:
Aug 22
,
1947
About
Because
First
Home
Love
Thinking
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Joyce Meyer
Mark Twain
Og Mandino
Zig Ziglar
Seven of my novels take place in the Southwest, in the Four Corners area which has been my home since 1973. I know these mountains, rivers, mesas and canyons well, so it's been natural for me to draw on my own personal experiences here.
Will Hobbs
Home
Me
Natural
Mountains
Own
Corners
Seven
Draw
Has-Been
My Own
Area
Take
Rivers
Since
Know
Well
Been
Personal
Southwest
Personal Experiences
Experiences
Place
Which
Canyon
Novels
Four
Here
I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!
Will Hobbs
Wonderful
Other
Writers
Spur
Spurs
Western
North
America
Them
Far
Really
Award
Awards
Two
'Ghost Canoe' takes place on the storm-tossed tip of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, where I spent a lot of time hiking and exploring.
Will Hobbs
Time
Spent
Ghost
Peninsula
Takes
Hiking
Lot
Tip
Where
Canoe
Place
Exploring
Washington
Olympic
I love weird science. I learned in an article in 'National Geographic' that there are trillions of bacteria in our guts that help us digest food. These are non-human creatures.
Will Hobbs
Love
Food
Science
National
Digest
Our
Bacteria
Guts
Weird
Learned
Geographic
National Geographic
Article
Us
Help
Creatures
My first job out of college was six weeks of picking fruit alongside a dozen or so men from Mexico. The orchard was in Emmett, Idaho. The men spent almost nothing on themselves. Their paychecks went directly to their families back home.
Will Hobbs
Home
Fruit
Job
College
Men
First
Nothing
Back
Spent
Out
Directly
Weeks
Picking
Almost
Idaho
Almost Nothing
Alongside
First Job
Mexico
Families
Orchard
Six
Themselves
Dozen
My seventeen years of teaching inform my sense of audience in every line I write.
Will Hobbs
Sense
Every
Seventeen
Seventeen Years
Write
Audience
Line
Years
Inform
Teaching
Pacing has become more important than ever, largely because of other media. I've always tried to start my stories out with a bang, something that will hook their attention.
Will Hobbs
Will
Important
Become
Other
Hook
Out
Tried
Something
More
Attention
Because
Always
Than
Bang
Stories
Pacing
Media
Largely
Ever
Start
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