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 [...]
Saint Augustine
Praise and honor be yours, O Fountain of Mercy! What dangers threatened my soul when it rashly hoped that by abandoning you it would find something better! Whichever way it turned, on front or back or sides, it lay on a bed that was hard, for in you alone the soul can rest. You are [...]
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, [...]
Reading on many levels
When I was originally struggling with reading The Divine Comedy, I tried some of Dante’s other writings. Dante wrote up a whole system about how to read on more than one level and this, oddly, was a good entry point for me, because my mother had shared this system with a whole bunch of teenage [...]
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