Out to sea

I remember when I was in the United States Navy aboard the USS Chandler (DDG-996) during 1985 one of my favorite things to do during my free time (what little I got) while out to sea was to write. I was working on my third or fourth manuscript, handwriting it into spiral binders. The rocking of the ship as I sat in my rack inspired me. The sea was my friend.

I filled three spiral binders on that ship, fifteen hundred pages. Never typed it up. The story wasn't good enough. But the memories of those days, writing away in those notebooks, stay with me still.