About
Wolfgang Neudorfer
!n college I did a lot
better in English than math. Adding some credit hours one
summer, I took a writing course. For the major
assignment, the one which would count toward fifty
percent of the grade, I wrote a piece describing an
unsuccessful job interview. I had some experience to draw
on and the piece almost wrote itself. How pleasant that
was compared to the mechanics of bi- and trinomials of
advanced Algebra. Critiquing our efforts, the professor
praised my piece, copied it and handed it out to the rest
of the class. I had an epiphany then and I needed the A
to balance my grade average. But I buried the epiphany
because I went to law school and learned an entirely new
English language called legalese: tort feasors, fee
simple estates, parties of the first part, bailments and
liens, among the multitude of others. It was all put to
good use in a thirty-year career of legal writing with a
Government agency. After twenty-nine years of sometimes
mind-numbing formulaic writing and editing by committee,
where the wordsmiths in power could spend an afternoon
debating whether 'which' or 'that' was the appropriate
word in a specific instance, I suddenly remembered my
epiphany back in college. I also remembered that I had
been a fairly prolific letter writer to family members
and friends (this was an ice age before email) attempting
to be humorously inventive with whatever event I was
relating so as to strike a spark of elation in my pen
pal. On top of that, Martin Luther, an old hero of mine
came to me one restless night and wondered whether I
would drift into a retirement fixated on the eloquence of
my legal opinions, or whether I had the wherewithal to
try something new. I didn't need to nail up any theses
about the world being round on any church door, he said,
but God I needed to do something to keep the brain from
going to oatmeal. "After all, man," Luther
said, his cassock whirling as he left the room (my wife
swears he wasn't there) "you've got a word processor
and a three-finger typing skill; glue yourself down and
knock out a few pages every morning." So a
book-length manuscript became my
transition-into-retirement project. It took over two
years of sitting down most days, writing words, sentences
and paragraphs. Getting stuck and rewriting. Rereading,
expunging and often wondering whether there was any merit
in what I was engaged upon. But I know that regardless of
the value of my manuscript, my routine of plugging away
at it was good, kept me out of trouble. And one day, a
year into my retirement, I was finished. Now my wife took
up the manuscript and edited it for another year. Thank
you and bless your heart, Carol.
Birth
Place
Pahl, Germany
My
first novel, "Reflections of an Unknown
Artist," has been released by Publish America. You
can read about it at
WolfGang Neudorfer 540-323-0491
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