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June 28, 2007
Deforrest : My free time is basically my art time’
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have a lesson behind it.
Augusta Focus — Whar is
your work schedule like
when you're writing?
My free time is basically
my art time. | spend about
85 percent of it on my series.
While everyone else is at the
club on Saturday night, I'm
sitting in front of Photo
shop.
Augusta Focus — Where do
you get your information of
ideas for your books?
I daydream... a lot. To
research things I'd like to put
in a book, I usually start
looking at Wikipedia for the
Mental: “These patients frequently return to the hospital within a matter of days or weeks
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attorney at the Adanta hospital.
She now represents patients
who have been involuntarily
committed.
These patients frequently
return to the hospital within a
matter of days or weeks, records
show.
The readmission rate to
Georgia psychiatric hospitals is
more than 50 percent higher
than the national average,
according to a state-sponsored
study from 2005. State records
and lawyers and advocates for
people with mental illness
describe patients who have
come and gone from state hos
pitals 40, 50, even 70 times,
with litde or no improvement
in their conditions.
Officials at the Georgia
Department of Human
Resources, which operates the
state hospitals, said patients
who leave in stable condition
make their own decisions about
where they go. Instead of telling
former patients where they
should live, “our job is to have
services and resources in place
to help them get better,” Dena
Smith, a spokeswoman for the
Benot: Asked whether teoids played a role
Continued from page 1A
incident. This evening
marks the first step of the
healing process.
“Tonight WWE per
formers will do what they
do better than anyone else
in the world — entertain
you.”
A spokeswoman for USA
said the network had no
comment about the fact it
had run the Benoit tribute,
explaining, “Really, they
[WWE] know more than
we do — its all coming
out of their camp.”
Late yesterday, WWE’s
home page posted an arti
cle saying the organization
was concerned by “sensa
tionalistic™ reporting on
the Benoit story, specifical
ly that use of steroids
might have contributed to
his actions.
In a televised news con
ference yesterday after
noon, authorities said that
in addition to prescription
drugs they found anabolic
steroids in the house. The
bodybuilding drugs can
cause paranoia, depression
and explosive behavior that
is sometimes called “roid
rage,” the Associated Press
reported.
gJurin the news confer
ence, Bistrict Attorney
Scott Ballard told reporters
that toxicology test results
may not be available for
weeks or possibly months.
Asked wiethcr steroids
layed a role in the deaths,
Kc said, “We don't know
most basic information and
work my way up for more
scholarly rescarch. But you'll
see me break the laws of
~ physics several times just to
make the story more fun.
Augusta Focus — What do
you like to do when you're
not writing?
~ Drawing is my passion.
Augusta Focus — What was
one of the most surprising
things you learned in creat
ing your books?
r The amount of research an
author needs to do. You can
not write a great book with
out a great amount of
knowledge. Even though
Street Pedal Black s more of
department, told the newspa
per.
In an interview with the
newspaper last - November,
Gwen Skinner, director of the
agency’s mental health division,
said: “Do we think that a dis
charge o a homeless shelter
wmfifld be an optimum place
ment? The answer to that is
no.”
Experts in psychiatric care say
discharging paticnts into
homelessness is an especially
troubling practice.
“I cant conceive that a home
less shelter is a place where |
could discharge a patient 10,”
said Dr. Sidney Weissman, a
psychiatrist. who tcaches at
Northwestern — University's
medical school in Chicago. “Its
a place to sleep. ... These are
hard people to treat with every
thing in place. So when you
dont have everything in place,
its much harder.”
Weissman and others say
patients should remain in men
tal hospitals unul their condi
tions are stable. Discharge
plans, experts say, shmfi'd
revolve around strong commu
nity-based services that make
sure patients take their medi
cines and that assist them with
yet. That's one of the things
we'll be looking at.”
WWE was already spin
ning that angle yesterday
afternoon, insisting “roid
rage” could not have been
involved because the “physi
cal findings announced by
authorities indicate deliber
ation, not rage. The wife’s
feet and hands were bound
and she was asphyxiated,
not beaten to death. By the
account of the authorities,
there were substantial peri
ods of time between the
death of the wife and the
death of the son, again
suggesting deliberate
thought, not rage.
The presence of a Bible
by each is also not an act of
rage.”
According to authorities,
Benoit killed his wife Fri
day, his son late Saturday
or early Sunday and him
self some time later; his
body was found hanging
from the pulley of a piece
of gym equipment. Ballard
said it was “bizarre” that
Benoit spread out the
killings over a weekend.
“I'm baffled about why
anybody would kill a 7-
year-old,” he said. “I don't
think we'll ever be able to
wrap our head around
that.”
AUGUSTA FOCUS
an “everyman” series, | need
ed to look up a lot even the
most educated person can
keep his or her suspension of
disbelief. Without thar,
critics will be even more
ready to rip your work apart.
Augusta Focus - Do you
have any suggestions to help
me become a better writer?
I worked as an English
tutor at Morchouse College,
and 1 always told the tutees
to take a close look at what
ever they read and 1o read
more general—to notice
how and where punctuation
is used and how an article or
essay “tlows” from one idea
to the next and 1o make sure
housing, medical care and ther
apy, among other needs. In
Georgia, though, budget cuts
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that they are familiar with
the subject matter to make
their own writing believable.
Another important thing
is to know vour audience. |
wrote Street Pedal Black for
five different audiences:
Those who like African-
American literature,
Those who like Action
and/or Science Fiction,
Those who like Short
Novels,
People who just like to
read,
And everyone clse.
Augusta Focus — Do you
feel more African Americans
are reading?
I dont want o sav too
have made such follow-up serv
-ICCS SCArce,
In an April report on the state
Week of 06/27/07 thru 07/03/07
Good neighbors. Great prices.
much since I'm not an expert
on the topic, but I believe if
more were reading, Dr. Bill
Cosby might have never had
to give his “Pound Cake”
speech. There’s been a lot of
controversy around it, and
don’t want to say I complete
ly agree with his comments,
but there really does need to
be an increase in reading and
writing. | think onc issue is
that there 1s not a lot of
modern literature appealing
towards teenage African
Americans, so there’s a
slump at those ages. | wrote
Street Pedal Black as an casy
read, and 1 would like to
write more directed towards
hospital in Adanta, Virginia
based behavioral health con
sultant Diane Grieder wrote
those ages. I'm releasing a
tamer version of Street Pedal
Black IT in the near future,
so there’s a chance for adult
readers to connect more
with younger readers—that’s
really what it's more about.
Augusta Focus — What are
your current projects?
Let me just say that I'm
always up to something!
I'm prepping Street Pedal
Black — FEpisode 11I: Dark
Versus Black tor late this vear
or carly 2008, I'm trying to
finish the first installment of
my scecond series Cool Evil,
and I'm planning two other
series... I'm not going to
give it all away, but “a lot.”
that Its “discharge plans are not
real, relevant or clinically or per
sonally useful.”