"In the Clouds"
Published in NECESSARY FICTION, June 15, 2012
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Roger Real Drouin shares how his experiences on the trail shaped his novel, No Other Way.
"The further I hiked, the more my writing came together. To portray No Other Way’s fictional world filled with backcountry mountain forests and shorebirds that migrate thousands of miles, I had to get my boots dirty and get up close to the most intricate details of the natural world that exists in our wildernesses.
There is always at least one tangible surprise of the hike — whether it’s crossing paths with a white-tail doe dashing past in a rush of unflinching energy or encountering a red-shouldered hawk no more than 10 yards away.
But it is the intangible surprise that is the most noticeable elevation change for this hiker." Read more here.
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Roger Real Drouin shares how his experiences on the trail shaped his novel, No Other Way.
"The further I hiked, the more my writing came together. To portray No Other Way’s fictional world filled with backcountry mountain forests and shorebirds that migrate thousands of miles, I had to get my boots dirty and get up close to the most intricate details of the natural world that exists in our wildernesses.
There is always at least one tangible surprise of the hike — whether it’s crossing paths with a white-tail doe dashing past in a rush of unflinching energy or encountering a red-shouldered hawk no more than 10 yards away.
But it is the intangible surprise that is the most noticeable elevation change for this hiker." Read more here.
