“The world breaks everyone.....

War Springs Eternal is dedicated to my brothers and sisters in arms -

-To those who were asked to do the unthinkable.

-To those who HAD to do the unimaginable.

-To those who are broken and still fighting.

-To those for whom the fighting became too much.

The world eventually broke Hemingway to the point that he took his own life. Many have speculated about the reason(s) why the greatest American author of his time took his own life, even I discussed it in One Day I Was. However, regardless of why, the fact is that a strong-willed person, who had become stronger many times, was eventually broken. The world always wins.

The characters I write, are all, in one way or another, broken. I write about broken and damaged characters because in my experience, the broken person is the norm, not the exception.

We are all, to one degree or another, in some way broken. That is not a bad thing. Many of us survive and even thrive from the world’s efforts to break us.

Additionally as writers, understanding the broken within ourselves, allows us to understand, and further explore the broken in others, and eventually, in our creations.