by Jan Bear | May 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
Grace asks: “I get more and more curious about your book. Do you have a blog entry somewhere back there that talks about what it’s about, what it’s called and all the rest of that? If not, do you feel like doing one just to fill me...
by Jan Bear | May 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
Got back to the story for the first time since before Pascha. It was OK to skip Holy Friday, Holy Saturday and Pascha, but Monday through Thursday of Bright Week? I had a lot of other stuff to do, but also, it’s resistance against this painfully shitty first...
by Jan Bear | May 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
From Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men.”No,” he said, and it was another voice, quiet and easy and coming slow and from a distance, “I’m not here to ask for anything today. I’m taking the day off, and I’ve come...
by Jan Bear | Apr 27, 2008 | Uncategorized
I got to read the book of Jonah at this year’s Holy Saturday services. It’s a short book, maybe a five-minute read, even aloud, and it offers some some great insights into story structure.The book is in four chapters. There’s little or no ordinary...
by Jan Bear | Apr 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
Word count Tuesday, zero, zip, zingo. Bad me!Word count Wednesday, 1,000, bringing the book total to 14, 400. The added words were all in the same scene where the story went its own way Monday, and now I’ve “discovered” that my characters are distant...