A Few Things for Your Weekend (04.29.22)
Including the latest installment of Video of a Novel
I’m feeling a lot better than I was feeling last week at this time, when I was recovering from a night of fever-induced hallucinations. The sun is out, a cool spring breeze is blowing, and there’s a fun weekend ahead: our two middle schoolers have a spring dance tonight, and our two high schoolers have their prom tomorrow night.
The word hope continues to be at the forefront of my mind these days. How do we as writers, as humans, continue to hope for things when they seem so unlikely, or when we’ve been disappointed in the past? How can we keep writing when the act itself seems so unimportant, unnecessary, or pointless?
Hope. It’s the only way forward.
How can we maintain hope? Maile talks a little bit about that in her weekly blog post, which I’ve linked to below, along with a few other things for your weekend…
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This week after seeing how a plant-loving friend tried to play down her love for her little green buddies, Maile and I are exploring why we as creative people often try to diminish the creative work we do instead of embracing it.
“And we’ll make it, too, friends. Because there are still good people in the world who are willing to put life on hold to watch the miracle of nature walk across their paths. There’s still the Divine looking out for us and caring that we get to where we need to go. There’s still a sun above us and breath in our lungs.
In Some Places, Black Holes are Tearing Apart Thousands of Stars at a Time
Finally, in today’s Video of a Novel, I talk about how the struggling ficus on the table behind me is the perfect metaphor for the story I'm currently working on...