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Oh, good – We’ve been hearing thunder for hours now and Polly is cowering and shaking under my desk. That’s perfect mood music to finally finish this blog post from our June road trip, which included hiking in North Carolina’s DuPont State Forest. Note the bridge; you’ll see it again later. What’s three times better than a single [Continue reading] The Man and I recently got back from our spring road trip. We had our usual quirky time – we like back roads and waterfalls and dams and fish hatcheries and of course we met enough characters to people a couple of novels (I hope). When you and the guy walking across the top of [Continue reading] A lump of coal Much more than a lump of coal, actually. This is Part Two of my earlier post describing our recent road trip. This is strip-mining and mountaintop removal in operation. Mountaintop removal to extract the coal within has been going on throughout Appalachia since the 1970’s. According to the EPA: [Continue reading] I’ve been struggling for the last couple of days to write a coherent post about our recent road trip. Usually when I’m struggling this much, it’s because I’m on the wrong path using the wrong tool. For one thing, I’d been trying to cram too much into the post: • pictures of breathtaking mountains and equally breathtaking [Continue reading] I decided to start writing a mystery during this year’s National Novel Writing Month. For one thing, it’s time to live up to the name of my blog. But the real reason – I think – is this: I need to try using an outline or formula for writing a long narrative, and it [Continue reading] I’m back….. A and I took a 2 ½ week road trip, during which I intended to post occasional nuggets from the road that wended its way up through North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, and then back down to North Carolina. Well, the road trip to anywhere is paved [Continue reading] This feels ‘eh’ to me but I needed something to jump start my writing this morning after several days of non-stop cooking, traveling, and eating. Happy post-Thanksgiving! ** Becca hesitated in the darkness. What if it was already too late? How could she have gone searching for the heart of her soul when it was there, right [Continue reading] Here’s another excerpt from my writing that is quite different in tone from the excerpt I posted earlier. I’m not sure how — and if — the two elements can come together successfully, and that will be one of the challenges starting in December. I’m also trying to write a little about homelessness and that [Continue reading] Lots of people in North Carolina pay big bucks for personality license plates. I don’t understand it but, hey, it’s a free country. So at noon today I was cruising down Independence when an SUV with the license plate EDIT passed me. I wanted to yell out the window, “No, dammit, WRITE. [Continue reading] I thought her NaNo pep talk was interesting. I loved this piece of wisdom: “You can’t know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we’re reading or writing.” That seems to be true for me. I can give you a one-sentence description of most of my NaNo [Continue reading] |
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