Archive of My First Blog – 16
An old novel, a new novel and 50 new students
December 31, 2009
Only seven blog posts for the entire year of 2009 – not very impressive. I’m hoping to do better in 2010, especially when – if? – I redo the website with blog software. But before I undertake that project, I have three others that take priority. First up, the 50 new students I’ll be meeting on Jan. 5 in the two sections of English Composition II that I’ll be teaching winter term at Rogue Community College. The class focuses on argument and research, and is my favorite. Next, I’ll be finishing up work on my first novel, Alliances, which comes out in a new edition early in 2010 from Straight Up Press. Finally, I’ll be writing, rewriting and polishing the first pages of my new novel, Perfecting Eden, which I reluctantly put on hold last summer so I could concentrate on my re-entry into academia. I put the writing of the novel on hold but not the daydreaming, and I think the delay has actually benefited the book. Returning to my first novel, over which I daydreamed literally for years, has reminded me how much some stories gain from a long, slow simmering. Perhaps that’s especially true of novels with multiple viewpoint characters such as Alliances and Perfecting Eden. Just occurred to me that both also happen to be historical novels. Hmmm – coincidence? Perhaps I’ll discover the answer in the new year. In the meantime, I’ll make use of all the gloomy and drizzly days of a southern Oregon winter to do my best on both novels, old and new.
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