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| Robert Krog: Weaver of Worlds, Caretaker of Orchards and all around stand-up dude |
With
me today is Robert J. Krog, a family man, a certified, lawn care, spray tech,
and above all, a writer. I see that you like asking people why do they write,
so I think I should take it in another direction and ask: why don't you stop
writing? What's that thing that makes you want to sit down on your keyboard and
come up with worlds?
I don’t stop writing, because if I did,
I’d just be a Walter Mitty, and I can’t stand the thought. I also have a little arrogance in me that
tells me I’m a pretty good writer and maybe it’s what God put me here to
do. If so, I’m not carrying out the duty
all that well, but I try. I’m a natural
daydreamer, much like Walter Mitty, and the stories and other worlds come to be
whenever my hands are busy, but my mind is free. It seems a shame to waste them all. I probably let two or three stories die,
unwritten every day, but some, I hold onto, take notes for and attempt to get
down in full. Some of these even see
publication somewhere, sometimes. I
won’t say I’m compelled or unable to stop, but it does feel that way at
times.
I actually have tried to stop a few
times, tried to give it up as futile, and failed. I’m nearly forty, and my first story,
excepting a couple of bits in the high school literary journal, didn’t see print
until just four years ago. That’s a long
time to go unpublished and not give up.
My natural thought patterns are stories and essays. I’m not sure how I’d change that, but I
wouldn’t want to try. I love
storytelling.
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