NOVEMBER 2024
The shoulder no longer hurts. In fact it's healing well. One hour's exercise each day seems to be working although the stretchy ones are not getting any easier to do. I feel much better without both shoulders hurting all the time. Writing continues slowly but the horror stories are nearly all ready, just need a story thread to connect them and have them flow into each other and make sense. The Gentle Japan story research and information is sorted into separate storeis a concertina folder and I fear I might have too many and end up writing another novella. Bits of stories keep popping into my head for the creative non-fiction pieces.
Writing is such a peculiar process. Listening to the Ideas programme on the CBC radio gave me an ah ha! moment and a story I wrote a few years ago now makes sense and I know how to rewrite it. Like so many stories which don't sell and need something, but I can't find or create that something at the time, it's a word, a sight, a person's actions which clicks and everything makes sense. Sometimes it takes years to work.
'Salt Run' , the Japanese novella, is now published as an ebook on Amazon. It will be out on D2D and Kobo shortly, then I wait for Ingram to get my print copies to me. I wish I had more time for writing but boring old daily tasks get in the way and I still miss spending time with my old friend. It stuns me that a friendship of 16 or 17 years can just vanish because of a few evil words by evil minded, greedy children..
