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| Charles
Patton began his writing career by writing a screenplay that qualified
him for a Master Screenwriter’s class. After honing the screenplay
in the class, he submitted it to a competition and won the Florida
Motion Picture and Television Associations’ award for the
best unpublished screenplay for the state of Florida in the year
2000. During this same time period, he began writing as a columnist
in the monthly entertainment newspaper, Focus-In and continued to
do so for five years. It was at this time that he met Colt Terry
and began a five and half-year saga to interview, research, write,
edit and publish Colt’s biography.
During the lulls between the waves of work required by the publisher, Texas A&M University Press, he managed to write two other books. One is a compendium on the topic of Strategy – more comprehensive than On War by Carl Von Clausewitz and more readable than anything by Bertrand Russell. The other a fantasy adventure story for girls aged 9 to 11. Both are unpublished but will soon be shared with publishers for consideration. In addition to his writing career, and a full time position as an executive of a resort development company, he has climbed mountains, one a mile higher than the highest mountain in Colorado, attained the rank of 4th degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, trained scuba instructors, and designed and developed five large real-time, online computer systems. |
