In 1982 Ford got into sports writing. He had trouble making it anywhere so he wrote his first novel in his trilogy, “The Sportswriter”. Far before that he started writing short stories but never successfully finished any of them. In the 1970’s he was friends with a number of good short story writers and feels he honed his craft through them.
“...maybe it is I grew into being a short story writer around some people who were really good short story writers Anne Beatty, Ray Carver and Toby Wolfe and we were all pals back in the 70’s but prior to that I hadn’t been able to write short stories at all. When I started trying to be a writer that was the thing that I really set my sights on and I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t. Whatever a short story was I was incapable of writing one.”
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