Steps Forward

摘要

FO: Writing about my life as a foreign correspondent and photographer had never appealed to me, but the idea of comparing and contrasting my war experiences with someone who actually fought in those wars seemed interesting and worthwhile. TJ and I discussed how to approach telling our combined stories, how the wars affected us, and how we found ways to cope in the aftermath of war. Originally, we planned on me writing chapters in the first person, with TJ writing in third person, for the book to read as though there was a single narrator. But our editor, Wendy Wolf, suggested we try dual first-person narratives, which created tension between our voices and made the story more textured and intimate. TB: Just as Fin trusted me to go on our first patrol together in Afghanistan, I trusted him as we set out on our mission to write Shooting Ghosts.