[The latest, and possibly the last, harvest from our small garden this year.]
Suddenly here we are in the last week of September and the first week of Autumn. We finally have something approaching seasonal weather, though the weather we are having now would have been considered unusually hot only a decade ago. So it goes.
Reading
I have set all of my other reading aside so that I may focus on reading the collection of interviews with Jorge Luis Borges. I picked this book up back in June 2016 and it has been gathering dust for the past eight years.
Writing
Thought it isn’t necessarily creative writing, I did stay up late a few nights ago and write a long blog post for the monthly Insecure Writer’s Support Group blog hop. The post will go live on Wednesday, October 2. The question for the month was about our favorite classic ghost stories. I chose “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce. For why this was the story which most affected Young Me, check back in a couple of days.
Reading the interviews with Borges has helped me sort out a few problems in one of my longer (and older) works-in-progress. I am taking notes and rearranging a few things, noting where I can remove characters who are now extraneous and adding one or two who will be central to the revised work. Though I will not be officially participating in NaNoWriMo this year I do plan to spend much of November (and October, and December) writing, and perhaps complete a first draft by the end of the year. This will only be possible because I will be able to use more than half of the previous version essentially unchanged, or only lightly edited. And if I can’t complete a draft by December 31, I would like to have it done by the end of the Year of the Dragon.
Subject: Revenge, Music
Setting: Boardroom
Genre: Mystery
Listening
Interesting Links
- “Helene’s Catastrophic Potential Stokes Fear Amid Florida Insurance Crisis” (Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams)
- “Hurricane Helene’s rapid intensification fits ominous trend” (Andrew Freedman, Axios)
- “Dozens dead, millions without power throughout southeast U.S. in wake of Helene” (Clyde Hughes and Don Jacobson, UPI)
- “Why Hurricane Helene is a wake-up call” (Lavanya Ramanathan and Umair Irfan, VOX)