Things That Can’t Be Broken is as a draft of a novel, completed live on this Substack newsletter, one chapter every week, over the course of a year.
This quick little update is just to keep you informed, let you know I’m still here working behind-the-scenes.
Progress
The imperfect voiceover podcast for the draft of Things That Can’t Be Broken is complete. You can listen anytime.
The reorganization of this website is moving along and will be completed by the end of September
I’ve re-read Finding Baba Yaga by Jane Yolen and will be reviewing it for the Brain Training series in my September 27 post
There is no post planned for Sept. 20. As of tomorrow, I will be on a break to explore some forests and caves with my husband. I haven’t skipped a weekly post on purpose since I started mid-2024, but I think a break here and there is not a bad thing.
Currently reading
I will start The Walking Drum by Louis L’Amour this week to review for my Brain Training Series
I am also reading a paperback copy of The Hobbit with Mariella Hunt, which is a delightful comfort
I am enjoying the novel, Mud Valley by Terry Fries as an ebook on my iPad
I’m listening to C.B. Ash’s (a.k.a Kummer Wolfe) fast-paced adventure novel, Dark Device of the Great Chasm
And of course, all the incredible ongoing serials I’m attempting to keep up with on Substack
What is this Brain Training Series?
During this six month series, I am reviewing a small selection of various fiction in an effort to “train my editor brain” using Tiffany Yates Martin’s course and her book, Intuitive Editing, as my guide. This is in preparation for a round of self-editing of my first novel, Things That Can’t Be Broken, and also to put time-space between writing and editing.
I’m bringing you subscribers along.
In-between reviews, there will be creative writing: Short fiction, poetry, whatever comes.
Today’s creative treat
The following is inspired by my re-reading of Finding Baba Yaga by Jane Yolen.
Always Widdershins
Widdershins
Widdershins
“Always Widdershins”
Widow shins
Bony-legged
Chicken-hut dweller
The Baba Yaga
Child stealer
Mortor-powered
Pestle wielder
Bones and skulls
Sentinels
Surround a place of
Chores and woes
Mind your steps
Make no foes
Should you tread
Through pine shadows
Where children stray
Far from the path
They
Chose.