Summer Moon of the First Harvests
Today was an inside day. 9o degrees, 73 dewpoint. Definitely a writing day. I’m at the 75% revised point, so I’m looking at the end of revision III in a matter of a week, two at the most. There are still futzy things to do after that. Connect up separated sections, change some section and chapter headings. That sort of thing. Not a lot of time, but some.
Then, I’ll be ready for my beta readers, if they want, to go over this revision. I’m asking Kate to give it a thorough reading for grammar, spelling, other technical matters. She’s very good at that and this is, I hope, the last revision before submission to agents.
As they tackle that task, I’ll set it aside completely. I’ll signal Greg to turn the Latin back on for the week after Labor Day and I’ll start writing Loki’s Children, the second novel in the Unmaking Trilogy. I have a good start with material cut from Missing and a good deal of research I did while the beta readers were at work.
I’m also taking two MOOC’s at the end of the summer, one new historical methods for a new china and another on modernism and post-modernism. Both are core interests of long standing. Also, in September, a MOOC I’m really looking forward to, Modern and Contemporary American Poetry.
With end of the gardening and bee season chores there will be no moss growing on this rolling stone.
The poetry course will include 19th-century proto-modernists Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman.
