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
The rest of my year will be planned for maximum effect. Sundays will consist of grocery shopping and writing. WRITING I will reedit and redesign my books. The great thing is that it consists of either editing or reformatting the manuscript. Editing takes brainpower, while reformatting is a passionless task. Whichever one I feel like… Continue reading The Plan
I have begun my editing project in earnest. Currently working on Chapter 10, I have put some spit and polish on the book's rough spots. There have been two major themes. 1. Solidifying what Rowan knows at various points and conveying them to the readers and 2. not being such a goddamn pussy about the… Continue reading Goodnight Irene 2.0
James Scott Byrnside 