The past week has been kinda bad from a writing point of view. Kinda bad is a euphemism, but I don't really want to try and describe or analyze it. I'm not sure it's entirely over and I'm too superstitious to want to look back. (What was it Satchel Paige said -- "Don't look back, something might be gaining on you?")
So I have a new system of just doing a little bit of set work each day, and being content with that. It seems to be working and if I keep to this a while I hope that I will be able to do more gradually. But it's OK. I'm content with what I do now. It's my offering, as everything in life is.
Gardening and Writing in Henderson, NV
"I don't like the waiting game. Let's play Hungry, Hungry Hippos instead."
-- Homer Simpson
-- Homer Simpson
About Me
- Laura Canon
- Writer of young adult historical fiction. Decent speller. Still reads the comics every morning. Can make a stellar casserole from any five random ingredients. Christian before Christian was cool. Knows the secret SCBWI handshake.
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Random Books from My Library
The Poison Hill - YA Historical Fiction
It's the summer of 1924 and Gertrude Leskow has just discovered her brother Louis is gay.
Complete at 60, 513 words.
Read the first chapter here.
Complete at 60, 513 words.
Read the first chapter here.
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Must-read times and places
- World War I
- ...give or take a decade or two on either side
- The Ancient World
- ...especially the Silk Road civilizations and the early history of Christianity
- The South in the pre- and post-civil rights era
- ...or any aspect of America in the 60s and 70s
- 19th century England
My idea of research
Watching clips of the Judy Garland Show on Youtube.
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Top illustration by Vera Neville from Emily of Deep Valley by Maud Hart Lovelace. In case you're wondering, one of the girls has just stolen the other's man and is showing off that she's wearing his pin. No fear: the one who got dumped is going to find a better man later in the book.
Top illustration by Vera Neville from Emily of Deep Valley by Maud Hart Lovelace. In case you're wondering, one of the girls has just stolen the other's man and is showing off that she's wearing his pin. No fear: the one who got dumped is going to find a better man later in the book.
Quote...
"She stood the whole day long on the roof and waited; perhaps she is waiting there still.
But he wandered through the world and told stories..."
from "The Flying Trunk," Hans Christian Anderson.
But he wandered through the world and told stories..."
from "The Flying Trunk," Hans Christian Anderson.
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