Derryan Derrough Character Analysis
On Tuesday, Oct. 26, the Murrell Library had another visiting writer! The visiting writer was Derryan Derrough, who was a former wrestler and student from the college. He is married, has one son and is from the city Fenton in St. Louis, Missouri. Derrough is a young adult author that has currently made two books, Incomparable: The Legend of Angel Morland and The Sound You Made. However, for a long time Derrough strayed away from his incredible writing abilities. “After I wrote, whenever I was little, I kind of stopped writing because the Nintendo came out,” said Derrough. “I kind of put the pen and the paper down and started doing other things that really didn’t matter.” Derrough had become enveloped in a whole other world outside of writing.
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For him, writing ignites a burning passion inside him, enabling him to find the words to write on a blank piece of paper and create the story. “Whenever somebody gives you a chance, or somebody believes in you, those are the people that I feel that you shouldn’t forget,” Derrough said. “Those are the people I have not forgotten.” Derrough has had more inspiration in his life that has helped him embrace his inner self. Lee Child is one of his favorite authors. Child is known for the Jack Reacher novel series and Derrough has always admired Child’s technique with storytelling.
Another big inspiration for Derrough was his old wrestling coach, Mike Maccholz. Derrough called Machholz to come up because Derrough wanted to show Machholz how much he admired him by presenting Machholz with the first, created copy of the book The Sound You Made.
“Whenever I brought him up here and talked about him for a little bit, like I do thank him for giving me that chance,” Derrough said. “I felt like that was a little bit of a spring board to some of the things I’ve been doing writing wise. I think that, to me personally, he’s a great inspiration. Even though I ended up transferring, I never forgot about this place, I never forgot about him being my coach, he’s always been my coach, and he’ll always be my
For him, writing ignites a burning passion inside him, enabling him to find the words to write on a blank piece of paper and create the story. “Whenever somebody gives you a chance, or somebody believes in you, those are the people that I feel that you shouldn’t forget,” Derrough said. “Those are the people I have not forgotten.” Derrough has had more inspiration in his life that has helped him embrace his inner self. Lee Child is one of his favorite authors. Child is known for the Jack Reacher novel series and Derrough has always admired Child’s technique with storytelling.
Another big inspiration for Derrough was his old wrestling coach, Mike Maccholz. Derrough called Machholz to come up because Derrough wanted to show Machholz how much he admired him by presenting Machholz with the first, created copy of the book The Sound You Made.
“Whenever I brought him up here and talked about him for a little bit, like I do thank him for giving me that chance,” Derrough said. “I felt like that was a little bit of a spring board to some of the things I’ve been doing writing wise. I think that, to me personally, he’s a great inspiration. Even though I ended up transferring, I never forgot about this place, I never forgot about him being my coach, he’s always been my coach, and he’ll always be my