Jack's Place

17 Nov 24

         Good morning, friends. Just a quick note today to bring everyone and myself up to date. In the month (anniversary today) that I've been here, I've learned that I do my best creative work in the morning before the trials of real life have gotten their grubby fingers into the porridge and stirred everything up. Thursday and Saturday mornings find me as busy as a stud tick around the old homestead, so don't look for me on those days; call them my weekend. As a footnote to this, I'm not going to blog every day that I'm here. When there's something worth saying, I'll say it.
         During my recent time away, I managed to finish the first draft of The Fix-up, the third installment of my "Invalid Item"  series. Now I'm going to set it aside for two weeks, let it get cold in my mind while I work on something else, then get it out and polish the narrative. The pros among you probably call that Editing the Content. Once I get it to where I don't think I can improve it further, I'll begin the fruitless hunt for typos and other misspellings. Proofreading, in other words, the "writer's best friend," though I've rarely had a friend who was simultaneously so demanding and unforgiving. Anyway, I see that story going up in December, and I very much hope you like it!
         Finally, this morning I read and reviewed a bittersweet poem about the pain of the holidays. It's very much worth a read, and the poetry fans among us (and even those among us who aren't, like me) should definitely drop by and show it a little love!

November Blues  (E) What I think and how I feel about this month every year. #2330262 by Theodora Clayton Imogen Eliott

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