Wordknitter
Colony Member
Fellow Soul Scribblers,
I have always been a writer (poetry, journals, grey lit and excellent letters to loved ones). Mostly, it was channeled into my other vocation (youth worker/academic). A lifetime of experiences was collected in journals and letters and frayed scraps of paper. They were placed in a box for when it was time. For I believed, that yes, you can/should have more than one calling.
Now my only daughter is at university, and I am in what I can my “retirement phasing.” Or perhaps, my third act of five. I have a first full draft of a novel waiting. The word count is at 98,771. I would place it in the Bildungsroman genre (fancy for life course), so it has some heft. I have a lot of stowed away words. Like a torrent. Retirement phasing looks to be a good time.
Forgive my creakiness in fiction writing. I will craft.
My gratitude in critique. I look froward to surrendering to it, and to recover as we should.
Deborah
I have always been a writer (poetry, journals, grey lit and excellent letters to loved ones). Mostly, it was channeled into my other vocation (youth worker/academic). A lifetime of experiences was collected in journals and letters and frayed scraps of paper. They were placed in a box for when it was time. For I believed, that yes, you can/should have more than one calling.
Now my only daughter is at university, and I am in what I can my “retirement phasing.” Or perhaps, my third act of five. I have a first full draft of a novel waiting. The word count is at 98,771. I would place it in the Bildungsroman genre (fancy for life course), so it has some heft. I have a lot of stowed away words. Like a torrent. Retirement phasing looks to be a good time.
Forgive my creakiness in fiction writing. I will craft.
My gratitude in critique. I look froward to surrendering to it, and to recover as we should.
Deborah
