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Prize, McRae has an explanation. “I’m a natural lone wolf. I automatically take the opposite position from the nu^ority. It’s a natural impulse with me. A couple of times I’ve been lucky—popular wisdom has been wrong.”
McRae intends to drop his lone wolf stance with his third book, an autobiography tentatively entitled “Memoirs of a Closet Optimist.” Then if his fiind of experience isn’t exhausted, he’ll tackle fiction.
After that, he foresees another career switch. He’d like to branch out even now while he’s still writirfg, ‘Three hours a day of creative work is the most I can do. I have too much time On my hands and I need to fill it. Teaching writing would be a good way. I like working with kids and teaching is good for a writer because it reminds you of the basics. But the problem with teaching is that I’m not certified.
“So maybe I’ll run for mayor,” McRae continued. (Of what town, he didn’t say.) “Or maybe I’ll become a paleontologist. I’d like to be a doctor but that takes too long,” he added, grinning.
With his first literary foray so successful, why not be a writer for the rest of his life? “I’d got too bored,” McRae said. “I’d bore everyone else. And that’s worse.”
(Amisgrille resident Ron McRae’t book, Mind Wan, published by St. Martin’s Press, is currently available at Crown Books in Manassas.)
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