-
Camp NaNoWriMo word count: 6,833 as of 5am, mostly journaling, but also progress on “The Elk Pact” that might be next week’s flash fiction. I have four others that need a look. I have updated my word count and then I will stop writing for a while. For me, this means for a few hours perhaps. I…
-
Camp NaNoWriMo word count: 5,576 as of 6:30am this morning, mostly journaling, but I have started a new story, a single page so far. That will be the fifth flash, I think. Revised novel EMD word count: 20,027 Chapter 1 “Lying to My Mother” (4448 words) + Chapter 2 “Surrender” (about 5791 words) + Chapter 3 “Lying to Myself” (5476 words)…
-
Camp NaNoWriMo word count: 4840 as of 6am this morning, mostly journaling. One completed flash fiction (920 words) for this first week. revised novel word count: 9817 Chapter 1 “Lying to My Mother” (4448 words) + Chapter 2 “Surrender” (about 5297 words) needs reworking. I know I am making a mess for later on, but there, at least…
-
My posts for this month are likely to be entirely uninteresting. I am writing, seriously writing, and also journaling about writing. These are some of my words today: I am reading about subtitles. The examples mostly came from nonfiction, memoirs, essay collections, but then I thought: Why not? Everybody’s Mother Dies: A Novel About Living…
-
I did not have my camera with me so I cannot post a photo of the orange-juice orange Mustang we saw this morning at Costco. The sticker price is a tad over $44k, but I could save $4k buying it from Costco. I laugh about this because the color is one of my husband’s favorite…
-
So we went, I saw, and we came home again. Fourteen thousand people. I saw Marvin Bell entering the building as we drove past. I am mostly the invisible woman, too old to matter, but there were amazing people all around. My choices of what to bring home were determined by money ($15) and…
-
So yes, I am going. I am going to the national conference today, just for a few hours. Originally, because it is in Portland and has not been here in ages and because I know many people who will be attending and serving on panels (though specifics were hard to come by unless an individual…
-
There’s a connection. Wait for it. I was crazy for horses as a child. I begged for horse figurines for my birthday, read every horse book in the juvenile section of our local library before I hit adolescence and loved the smell of horse manure. “Can’t I have a pony?” Not in suburbia. I read…
-
The Emily Howland photo album containing the portrait of Tubman, (above: detail, ca. 1868) was unveiled this week at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. (NMAAHC, Library of Congress) I have added the photo above to the post from this morning: UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. Harriet Tubman would have been about 36 years old.…
-
I was reading The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. In a blurb on the back cover, Oprah Whinfrey urges people to buy a second copy for a friend “because you are definitely going to want to talk about it.” Someone asked me to be that friend. This fantasy fiction details real atrocities committed against African…
-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
