The first three books in this list are most likely in the correct order, but after that it will probably turn into a flip of a coin numerous times before the following story ideas are ordered correctly. If the answer is not “yes” to either question, the book/publication or primary source material has to go. Do I need the book or primary source material for research?.Will I read the book or primary source material again for pleasure?.I have every intention of enjoying my 104th birthday.Īs the years flash by at lightning speed there are two things that I now always ask myself: Hopefully Olivia de Havilland enjoyed-as much as possible-her 104th birthday. Oops! “Never say never,” at least for me, for in the first decade of this century I wrote four versions of a one-man show on Ned Wynkoop that played in Kansas, California, Colorado, and Oklahoma, and then a full-length play, Cheyenne Blood, that played for five weeks in Southern California. … This said, and when I quit the entertainment world cold turkey in the mid-1980s, I made it clear that I’d never act again.
#WHITE BUFFS IN MY POCKET CASH PAID ELWAY SOFTWARE#
Most likely there will be no more talks unless I receive my former fee of $750.00 and all expenses no more writing for the software world and they eventually paid me six figures (I’m still approached multiple times each week) as I’m no longer Scrooge McDuck (of Donald Duck and Walt Disney fame). No more articles (I’m sick of my pitches being accepted and then an editor tells me he wants Gatewood, Geronimo, or Custer articles-that’s past tense, as I don’t write about them any longer … not quite true with Mr. This portion of my future has been a long-time coming, and the shift in direction has been in my vision for decades. With my life, and my life expectancy, my upcoming books are my writing life.
(photo © Louis Kraft & Glen Williams 2012) Perhaps an LK explanation would be nice He is with me in life as he will be in death -forever linked.” Glen died on August 26, 2020, and my life has been a lot lonelier ever since. Our relationship has experienced a world of change that neither he nor I ever dreamed possible, but we have survived it. Our friendship began in 1990 in a software company, and he soon became my best male friend ever. In my dedication for Sand Creek and the Tragic End of a Lifeway (2020) I wrote: “For Glen Williams, my brother throughout time. For me it represents exiting the past and walking into the future. My wonderful bro Glen Williams took this great image (right) of LK in May 2012. … Don’t worry for it won’t feature any she-wolves. This blog will most likely go live in the fall. One of these wanna-be she-wolfs with bottle in hand will dance in the street in delight if I die before her … I mean him … oh hell, I don’t know what this she-wolf is. I can’t tell you how many wanna-be historians stuff their error-riddled fabricated pieces of crap that they pack with fiction disguised as fact exist. Not once, but twice I cut over 60,000 words from the manuscript. And it was a challenge to fit everything together in a linear fashion, bring the leading and supporting players to life, while completing a book wherein I delivered it with the final agreed upon word count. Sand Creek and the Tragic End of a Lifeway was life changing for me as former University of Oklahoma Press editor-in-chief Chuck Rankin said to me after it was published: “This is your masterpiece!” Regardless if it is or not, it felt good for after almost three years of us discussing how I wanted to write the manuscript he agreed.
I haven’t written and posted a blog since September 2020 due to my ongoing work preparing for the first two deliveries to the new Louis Kraft Collection at the University of New Mexico’s Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections (UNM CSWR). This is the Wrangler that LK won for Sand Creek and the Tragic End of a Lifeway.
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