by Louise | 19 March 2017 | Progress Updates |
Reading time: 2 minutes I hate it when writers write as though they aren’t the source of their own emotions, as though their emotions somehow exist separate from their actually feeling them. Especially when the writers are writing memoirs. I’m reading this memoir What...
by Louise | 30 October 2016 | Progress Updates, Short Notes |
Reading time: 2 min. I’m working on a long post about the first time I shared a dwelling with someone who wasn’t white. It was in college, when I was living in this small off-campus house, and one of my housemates for a while was a black man. In trying to write the...
by Louise | 16 October 2016 | Progress Updates |
At my computer on a rainy Saturday evening. Reading time: 2 min. I’m usually not satisfied with my writing. I always wonder if I could make a post better, like make it more succinct, make the language beautiful, evoke more emotion in you my readers. I’m working on a...
by Louise | 6 October 2016 | Progress Updates |
The road to Boulder Cave, just off highway 410 east of Mt. Rainier. The road was closed to everything but emergency vehicles, because of the high fire risk when I was there. I wanted to walk along the road, and usually a “No Foot Traffic” sign...
by Louise | 2 October 2016 | Progress Updates |
Reading time: 2 min. I’m trying to figure out what to write about next. I think I’ve written everything about my growing-up years that I want to write. I’ve written about what I think are the most important facts and events: how I grew up in a majority white...
by Louise | 30 June 2016 | Progress Updates |
Reading time: 4 min. I’ve been wondering how in the hell I’ll ever get this memoir published. The world of publishing has changed so much even in just the past decade, it’s unrecognizable. And then attempts at alternative publishing platforms, like Booktrope, go out...
