I wrote earlier about the driftless area in Iowa and Wisconsin. Drift is an older word for the stuff that glaciers move around, and then leave behind as they melt. I’m more familiar with ‘moraines’ and the hills they create. Seattle is an example. Those hills are steep but unstratified (unlayered) junk. The hills around [...]
Category: books
Happy Fourth of July!
I managed to write 1200 words on my Novel-in-Progress. Jessamyn is almost out of the hayloft. As soon as daylight comes she can jump down. I’m happy about that. Writing is tough. So, in an effort to see how others have done things I’d like to do, I looked up L. M. Montgomery on the [...]
Blueberries and more
I am still struggling with the default font reset that WordPress has offered me for the last few weeks. In order to have the font I prefer I have taken to writing a bit of nonsense at the end of each paragraph. Then I set my cursor at the beginning of the trash, hit return, [...]
Learning how to write — sigh
The heroine of one of my Works-in-Progress has been stuck in a hayloft, in the middle of the night, for years. The reasons she is stuck there are legion, as I have slowly realized over those same years. A fiction book written today has to have a story arc. I'm betting that books always did, [...]
Ridiculous comparisons, slightly useful thoughts
Sometime in the past year I read several books from a modern author. The author is an immigrant, the books are award winning, the prose is exceptional, and the books are unrelentingly depressing. This person is supposedly writing about a particular immigrant experience, but the whole canon was utterly alien to me. I spent some [...]
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