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\"\"<\/a>By Graeme McNaughton\/Active Senior’s Digest<\/p>\n

Buck Woods, a homicide detective with the NYPD, needed a break from the big city, and made the choice to go back to his roots, heading to Orono, Maine to stay and work on a cabin left to him by his grandfather.<\/p>\n

However, inside the cabin he finds the body of a murdered man.<\/p>\n

The ensuing mystery is from the pages of The Cabin, the debut novel by W.D. Frolick. It has taken decades for the senior to make the move from amateur writer to published author.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was about 13, 14, I started writing a short story about a trapper named Buck Woods. He was out in the country in the back woods with a dog,\u201d he says of the character he created based on an older brother who died when Frolick was a child.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was my hero. I was only 8 when that happened. I always wanted to write about what he did \u2014 he liked to hunt, trap, fish, that sort of thing.\u201d
\nAs a teen, Frolick would write short stories and poetry \u2013 they\u2019re pretty bad looking back on them now, he says \u2013 and later songwriting. It was that latter passion that Frolick would go back to in 1995 after his wife passed away. That songwriting would lead the former General Motors worker and real estate agent to get into the music business, setting up Frozen North Music, a small music publishing company in 2001.<\/p>\n

However, as the years went by, Frolick wanted to try something new.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year in November, my wife and I got talking\u2026and I mentioned I wanted to write a novel of some sort, and she challenged me to actually do it,\u201d he says. \u201cSo I thought, OK I\u2019ll give it a shot.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Frolick was reading a lot of murder mysteries at the time, he decided that that was what he was going to do. He also decided to revive Buck Woods from his earliest writing days, casting what had been a backwoods trapper into a New York City homicide detective.<\/p>\n

In fact, Frolick and his new wife made the trip to Orono \u2013 Woods\u2019 hometown \u2013 to scout the place out, in order to ensure that his writing was accurate.<\/p>\n

Frolick says that, as a senior, it is important to keep your mind busy, and the process that went into writing his debut novel helped that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to read a lot of books on forensics, bought books on writing, did some courses on writing to get some ideas. For the past year or so, I\u2019ve been studying to become a better writer,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s opened my eyes to a lot of things I didn\u2019t know about, and it\u2019s been a constant learning curve ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frolick\u2019s writing hasn\u2019t stopped with The Cabin, which is available online on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, as he already has plans to release his second novel, Music City Murders. This time, the action comes to Nashville, where a serial killer is on the loose. Needless to say, the 76-year-old isn\u2019t slowing down just yet \u2013 something he says seniors can take to heart.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes you just need to get off your butt, keep active, do something you\u2019ve always wanted to do.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re successful or not, it\u2019s just to say that you\u2019ve done it. And that\u2019s what I\u2019m trying to do here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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