Woke up at 2 am. Why? Oh so many pandemic reasons…
Fortunately enough, I had an event to attend too.
A 4 am live write-in sprint time with Skye Dragon Mama, aka author S. D. Hegyes.
Continuer la lecture de « Diary of a writing project. Day 170: slow work in progress is still progress – two of fourteen »Two villages were built near a water basin lost in the middle of a fertile plain.
A village for the rich. A village for the poor.
At that time, anglophone were the rich and the francophone, the poor.
As time went by, the villages merge to become one small town.
That’s where we decided to live. We liked the water, the view, the house we bought, one of the only one with a big tree on the front lawn.
All the relevant questions were asked and answered and vice-versa.
But we didn’t ask anything about the geese. And so, it was told to us that, twice a year, for a month or so, canadian geese held a convention on the near by quiet waters of the basin.
Continuer la lecture de « Diary of a writing project. Day 168: geese convention »At first, I thought it would make a good novel.
The in-famous Covid-19 was just starting to spread its viral wings-tentacles-thing-ys, and getting out of China was becoming a problem.
The government of my friendly country sent an airplane to bring many people home.
Among those people was a family of four.
Problem was, the husband, both with Chinese and Canadian citizenship, was to stay behind. In the infected zone.
On the radio-show I listen to every morning or so, for a week or two, we’d listen to her anxious plea to get her whole family back home. Back to safety.
In real-life, this story has a happy ending.
However, in my mind…
Continuer la lecture de « Diary of a writing project. Day 167: The gloomy novel idea I will never work on »
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