Welcome to The Pendragon. My name is Chuck Warren, and I’ve been writing all my life. I started out writing funny little poems in my teens, things like “Ode to Rubber Cement” and other masterpieces. As I grew up, I started to write more, I was always much better at expressing myself on paper that vocally. I liked to write letters to my family for birthdays and other events to convey love and joy. It was always so much easier than trying to say things out loud, and I took pride in what I was able to say, and how I could say it, on paper.
My life has been interesting, I’ve been a lot of places, and seen a lot of things, and I think that adds to my writing. I think good writing is more than just facts and information on paper, it’s also an escape, a distraction, or just plain entertainment. Emotion and experience should bleed through the paper, if the reader can’t feel your hand moving the pen, then they are just going to skim. For me, that emotion has always been much easier to present on paper.
I write a lot of poetry, I can’t help it (seriously), it just comes out of me when I least expect it. Or, an idea nags at me until I have to write it out, where it then grows in to what you’ll find in my books. I don’t write flowery, pretty things, I write out of my life’s experiences, whether they are joyous, or painful, or in between. To me, poetry mostly comes out of the extremes, misery, love, joy and hate all produce the words that combine to present a picture of that emotional extreme. I don’t think I could just sit around and write poetry, I need those extremes to get that done. Going to work every day, interacting with people, even driving in the car all give me the tools I need to work with. Those tools aren’t the keyboard or pen, they are the emotions that breed the string of characters they translate into text.
As selfish as it may sound, I don’t write for anyone but me. I write because I enjoy building things with words, it’s like a jigsaw puzzle, I dump everything I’ve got out on the table, then thumb through the little pieces looking for the one that goes in the empty space. When I’m done, if I’ve done it right, I have a completed picture. Here, on this blog, website, and in my books, I’ll try to present some of those pictures for other people to enjoy.
Chuck Warren
11.11.07
Cool!
I always have been able to write than speak. Does that mean we are somehow related?
Comment by Chuck Warren — November 11, 2007 @ 1:41 pm
It must be the name…
Comment by admin — November 11, 2007 @ 1:45 pm
Very Cool! I have always been able to write much better than I speak. I have always wanted to write a book. I have always wanted to write a dog story. I really love animals and can relate to them almost as good as I can relate with people. It would be really cool to write about dogs. I’m not famous, or else I’d write an autobiography. But, that would never sell, at this point.
Comment by Ken Costello — November 13, 2007 @ 10:14 am
You said you’ve lived in alot of places. Did you live in Africa, or Cheyenne, WY. in the early 70’s? We moved from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1972, to Cheyenne, WY. (Warren AFB) There is a Chuck Warren listed in the JIB as part of the class of ‘75. I knew a Chuck Warren-not really well, the year we were at Warren AFB. Just curious to find out if the same Chuck Warren was at the same places as I was. You know what they say about the world. It’s small. Thanks. RLW Thomas
Comment by RLW Thomas — January 30, 2008 @ 12:14 pm
Sorry, I didn’t live in either of those places, although I would love to see both. I’m finding there are a lot more Chuck Warren’s out there than I ever would have guessed…
Comment by admin — February 2, 2008 @ 4:46 pm