Why am I spending almost a decade writing about Merlin? Because he is much, much more than a great wizard.
This story gives me a chance to add a new dimension to the rich lore about this enduring figure. I am currently writing a five-book epic about the youth of Merlin. In 1990, I moved back to Colorado and started writing in the attic of my home, with the help of my wife and our five young children. Even during my years managing a fast-growing business in New York City, I often rose before dawn to write.įinally, I followed my dream to write full time. During that time at Oxford, I composed stories and poems while hiking in the Scottish highlands, while sitting beneath the boughs of an English oak I named Merlin's tree, while backpacking through Asia, Africa, and the Arctic and while participating in a traditional roof thatching in Japan. I kept writing during my college years at Princeton, and during my years at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. I wrote and published my own magazine as a kid, called the Idiot's Odyssey, which sold about five copies an issue (including the ones my parents bought).
Ever since my youth on a ranch in Colorado, I've felt passionate about nature-and about writing. And it is by far the best way to travel-in our world or any other. Writing is both the most joyous-and most agonizing-labor I know.
I love to explore it, whether by foot or by pen. Whether it's the surprising connections among people, the wondrous patterns of nature, or the mysterious wellsprings of the spirit-the universe beckons.
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