It was about a year ago that I first heard of Nineveh. Not the Bible story (it took me an embarrassingly long time to remember it’s connection to Jonah and the Whale), but a local neighborhood in my city, Troy, Ohio. I don’t remember how Nineveh first came to my attention. I just remember beingContinue reading “A Tangent Research Project: Vanished Black Community of Nineveh”
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The Fanfic I Didn’t Know I Needed
Fan fiction has never appealed to me. I was first exposed to it in college. On move-in day a girl across the hall from me started regaling me with subplots of an anime fan fiction. I looked over the website she suggested, decided they had good ideas but their writing sucked, and decided it wasn’tContinue reading “The Fanfic I Didn’t Know I Needed”
Memphis Belle: Update
Just a brief update about my children’s book: Memphis Belle I have an illustrator for Memphis Belle! You can see a sample of the work below. I am putting together my own publishing company. For the number of hours I’ve spent researching agents, writing letters, looking up publishers, I could have already published this myself.Continue reading “Memphis Belle: Update”
Anxiety in Writing
I have anxiety. More anxiety than is healthy, and it influences my writing. That was more difficult to write than I anticipated, and my fingers are itching to backspace Looking back on my childhood, I am confident that I had anxiety starting in at least fifth or sixth grade. I’m sure it was constantly present,Continue reading “Anxiety in Writing”
Dear Utah: More Maas, Please!
On July 1, 2024, a new law in Utah took effect designed with the intent to keep criminally indecent and pornographic materials away from minors. I’m not going to get political today. My soap box is still tucked away. But, I am a librarian, so I was curious which books were considered “dangerous” to youth.Continue reading “Dear Utah: More Maas, Please!”
Routines: helpful or stifling?
While it may not be apparent by my blogging irregularity, I have a well established writing routine. Thursdays I get about 4 hours of writing time in the afternoon before going to work. I get the same thing to eat at Panera (an asiago bagel and soft drink), and set it out on the sameContinue reading “Routines: helpful or stifling?”
Tangent: 4 Sentence Fairy Tale Challenge
Last week there was a lull while at work. No books or DVDs to shelve, a couple carts of books had been cleaned, almost no patrons. From across the room I saw a sign announcing a Fairy Tale writing challenge. Bored, and a challenge thrown down in front of me, I scooped up that gauntletContinue reading “Tangent: 4 Sentence Fairy Tale Challenge”
Memphis Belle: rough sketches
I’ve talked about Alaska and the 1920s for so long, do you even remember that I have other book projects to work on? The first book I woke was in March 2021. My family had gone to the National Museum of the U.S Air Force in Dayton, OH to see Memphis Belle. Our oldest daughterContinue reading “Memphis Belle: rough sketches”
Editing: slow, steady, and not glamorous
In my last post, I was proud to announce that I reached the end of my book. I knew back then that editing would be the next step, no surprise, so I leaped in: and I feel like I’m still falling. I re-write a sentence, then re-write the whole paragraph, then go back two chaptersContinue reading “Editing: slow, steady, and not glamorous”
Words that Echo
At the beginning of today’s writing session I was continuing to read “Blond Indian” by Ernestine Hayes. It’s not very helpful for my 1920s setting, but it’s giving me much better insight to the living conditions of Native Alaskans. “Blond Indian” is literature with a capital L. It’s too heavy and abstract to be leisureContinue reading “Words that Echo”
Northern Skies Publishing 