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William A. Patterson

(He/Him)
Europe, European Union (EU), Pau, United States
Covers:  Approaching short-form or long-form vignettes on any topic, in the spirit of Montaigne.
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I write long-form fiction and nonfiction and short stories and poetry.

My poetry is a combination of petulantly alliterative free verse with self-burial in iambic pentameter, blank and rhymed; and, more of late, though not soley: iambic tetrameter cut by the troachic stress and tensions that borrows from a tighter, more solemn mode. . . with much sparser — if any — movement into free verse. (Only time will tell whether my tetrameter bears solemn moleskin skies, and whether it will continue to p…

What was your first job as a journalist?

My own creative nonfiction work when I was 25. It's in my book.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes.

How is social media changing news?

Social media means you have be apophatic as a journalist: get the wheat away from the chaff. Everything is grist for the mill, however.