27,013 words! My book is now longer than The Old Man and the Sea by 13 words.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
Saturday, February 27, 2021
Excerpt - the Colonel
Any woke person willing to read a paragraph I wrote and tell me if it's a form of racism or homophobia or just ignorant in some way I'm missing? I can't see a problem with it, but I've got a bad feeling about it ... Just because I don't want to be racist or homophobic doesn't mean I'm not sometimes by accident.
Alexander radioed Skagit LE Ranger Glenn Tricouni, a dark-haired native Kentuckian so Kentucky, he owns a hound dog, chickens, lots of guns, and probably a banjo. Some of the parkies refer to him and his horse-wrangling, blond husband, with an accent even thicker than Tricouni’s, as the Duke Boys of Skazzard County. He prefers the nickname Skagit 9-1-1 dispatchers gave him because of his deep, authoritative radio drawl: “the Colonel.” Tricouni, on patrol in the park, said he would head back to Marblemount.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Excerpt 2 - Beagle
Ten pages a day for 5 days = 50 pages. Now, 2 more repetitions. I can do this, even if I am one of the least disciplined, most gumption-challenged people I know! I'm not sure I have a choice, cause this stuff's coming out one way or another. I'm just trying to direct the spray from the fire hose. Here's a small beagle piece:
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Something To Say
It's a very different experience to write when you want to be a writer than it is to write when you feel like you actually have something worth saying.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Oh man. Totally heartbroken, though obviously not as much as Gary Snyder must be today. So sorry for your loss, Mr. Snyder. (Yes, I know he won't see this, but it's the energy or something that counts.)