As these Friday adventures have continued, my strategy has become clearer. I want to hike trails in the morning and early afternoon. Then, I want to visit towns in Illinois that I've never been to...which is most of them. Yesterday, I started off with Humistan Woods. It was difficult finding the place. There were multiple… Continue reading Humiston Woods and Pontiac
I got the author's copy of the new Goodnight Irene paperback. The text is far too thin and the image far too dark, especially the back. This happens a lot. The look of a digital image is brighter than that of a physical copy. I still remember the first proof of The Opening Night Murders… Continue reading Editing Project Update 7/20/26
This Friday's adventure was truncated. Here in the midwest, we had a little over 24 hours of poor air quality due to wildfires up in Canada. I did my 12,000 steps outside on Thursday morning and it wasn't too bad except for the smell. By the afternoon, the air was thicker and probably too unpleasant… Continue reading Kankakee River State Park
I finished reediting Goodnight Irene. It has been a fascinating process. Aside from sentence structure and formatting, there were two main areas I marked for improvement. The first was strengthening the clues. I mentioned in an earlier post that the clues in GI were timid. This has been rectified -- particularly the basis for the… Continue reading One down
This week's trip was to the White Pines Forrest State Park in Oregon, Illinois -- I swear, Illinois has a city named after every state. According to my mother, I went there 48 years ago for a camping trip. Considering I was only two, I don't remember much. On this trip, I spent 3.5 hours… Continue reading White Pines Forrest and a quick stop at Lowden
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