Joseph Scott Morgan

You don't see the impact.

Yeah.

Yeah, it does.

You know, I wound up back in 12, 13, one Georgia author of the year for my memoir.

And I was really, and kind of bring it back to a Southern theme, which my whole life is Southern themed.

Um, it was, I was really honored.

I got to meet Pat Conroy and that award that I won over in Georgia used to be called until it became politically incorrect, used to be called the Dixie writers award.

And that was one of the first awards that Pat Conroy won, you know, Prince of Tides and, you know, all those, uh, great Santini had a big impact on my life when I was a young kid, I read it.

And, uh, of course, Lords of Discipline and, uh,

um, in those books.

And, um, and I didn't understand, I just wrote, I wrote that book and one of the reviewers, um, a gal had written a review of the book and she said that, um, you know, she talked about how, you know, there's an old adage in writing about bleeding on the keyboard.

And she said, I took the grim reaper scythe and cut my throat.

And bled onto the keyboard.

And I really did because it was that memoir that I wrote.

It's what's called.

It turned out because I didn't know what I wrote.

My wife and I, when I wrote this thing, it was part of therapy.

I was going to burn it.

You know, I was going to get I was going to write it down and burn it and put it, you know, let the past be the past.

And one of her friends, who's a creative writer in Georgia, read it and said, you got a book here.