yWrite with Angela Grout

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Lieutenant Richard Chase retired from the Massachusetts State Police and exchanged his badge in for a pen to share his remarkable journey in law enforcement. On this episode of yWrite, Host Angela Grout and Author Richard Chase discuss the authenticity of his voice and the power in his compelling storytelling. Good storytelling in a memoir form needs raw honesty and details which only the writer can know. In Richard Chase's memoir I PROMISE TO COME HOME, he shares not only extraordinary stories that defined his career, but the pace at which his life as an officer had to dismiss the trauma which he faced. Host Angela Grout notes that I PROMISE TO COME HOME is a book written not only a gift for readers to experience life in the seat of a cruiser, but the process of writing memoirs serves for time to heal from traumas which life forces one to plow through. Author Richard Chase shares the ease of finding his title, the process of editing, and the extraordinary moments which writing allowed him to accept his inner demons, process PTSD, and learn the power which sharing his life has provided for others and himself.