Superior Wolf is underway again.\u00a0 The other day I hit on the point that had me stuck, a character I’d carried over from another novel.\u00a0 He didn’t belong in this one, but it took me 25,000 words or so to figure that out.\u00a0 Now a new plotline, more salient and tight, has emerged with a strong character, a protagonist who will drive the\u00a0book.<\/p>\n
It feels good to be back at fiction, a long caesura, and I hope the next one is brief.\u00a0 Fiction speaks from my soul, the rest tends to be, as we said in the sixties, a head trip.\u00a0 Over the years since then, I’ve learned to respect head trips.\u00a0 I earned a living with them for many years and they’ve kept me engaged with the world.\u00a0 They do not make my soul hum, though my\u00a0 Self speaks through them as well.<\/p>\n
Kate made a trip to the Green Barn, a nursery she really likes on Highway 65 near Isanti.\u00a0 She picked up composted manure, sphagnum moss and several plants.\u00a0 We have some new ferns, cucumbers, morning glories (the ones I grew in the hydroponics died outside, though the tomatoes have done fine.) squash and several grasses.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tomorrow morning I’m going in for a breakfast meeting at the Sierra Club, a meeting with the political director of the national Sierra Club. Politics makes my soul hum, too.\u00a0 Though I can’t say exactly why, water issues matter a lot to me, so I’m angling (ha, ha) to get on the committees that deal with Lake Superior, rivers, lakes and streams.\u00a0 Watersheds seem very important to me, so I hope to work on projects related to watersheds, too.\u00a0 One thing I know about politics is that showing up matters, so I’m gonna show up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Superior Wolf is underway again.\u00a0 The other day I hit on the point that had me stuck, a character I’d carried over from another novel.\u00a0 He didn’t belong in this one, but it took me 25,000 words or so to figure that out.\u00a0 Now a new plotline, more salient and tight, has emerged with a … Continue reading Making My Soul Hum<\/span>