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I am not sure when I became interested in writing. I enrolled in my first English comp class in my freshman year of college. I still have several of the short stories and essays that I turned in for that class, all marked with a lot of red circles admonishing me not to use so many adjectives. Didn't work. I still use a lot of adjectives. I worked for a local newspaper in Campbellsville, Kentucky in the late fifties and wrote a weekly column "Rambling With Ralph." I had a lot of fun with that one. I also wrote feature stories for the paper, composed and sold advertising, did some reporting and anything else that needed doing in a three-person front office newspaper. In 1959 I went under contract with State Farm Insurance companies and was transferred to South Carolina and given the opportunity of building an agency force in the northeastern section of the state. For the next thirty years my writing was pretty much confined to training programs, lesson plans, and motivational talks. I did manage to write a good bit of poetry during this time. I spent a lot of time in an automobile and while driving those lonely roads, the lines would start running through my head and would not cease until I pulled off the road and put them on paper. This body of work was kept private until recently; I have pulled some of it out and shared it the Poetry Writers' Group. I am giving consideration to having some of it published. I retired from State Farm in 1989 and purchased some land on the Sequatchie River over in Sequatchie County (Dunlap) where I built the home in which I now reside. I did retain my one-man company called "Success Unlimited" and still do a good bit of motivational speaking, teaching, and lay ministry work. I have written an autobiographical book, A Spiritual Journey, which I had published in December of 2002. I have completed a second book, my interpretation of some of the stories, parables and miracles of the Bible. This book is now being edited. I am working on a non-fiction book on the successful selling and reviewing of poetry and I have written with the thought of publishing some of it. I became aware of CWG in the summer of 2003 and joined in September of the same year. My wish is that I had known about the organization and been active prior to publishing my first book. Both I and the book would be a lot better for having done so.
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