In The Flow of Time – September 12, 2024 Spoiler alert, in which the end is revealed. (Edit: Because this turned out to be two books, this will be the end of the second novel, or maybe not the end, maybe the prologue, or maybe a prologue to Dancer. 🙂… Continue reading
In The Flow of Time – September 9, 2024 I’m deepening my background on the ancestral roots of African religion to which Marie Laveaux is plausibly exposed. There are three major areas where people were stolen from Africa. Modern day they are Senegal-Gambia; the Bight of Benin, and the Congo…. Continue reading
In The Flow of Time – September 8, 2024 I’m plotting (devious SOB that I am). It is 1818. At this point, Robinette and her children have been pulled back into slavery (because slaves are things) and resold. The nasty antagonist making this happen is René Trudeau. He is historical,… Continue reading
In The Flow of Time – September 1, 2024 Way back when, in an entirely different novel, I wrote a scene that mentions folks singing as they walk down the street after a wedding. No real music, of course, just that that’s what was going on. And one of my… Continue reading
In The Flow of Time – August 29, 2024 The compass rose, what else is there? Well, street numbers of course. There are alternatives. On the Hawaiian islands, the central part of each island is higher (volcanoes), sloping down toward the sea. So directions are based on that geographic reality…. Continue reading
In The Flow of Time – August 28, 2024 An interesting thing happened on the way down the Mississippi. Silt. The river carries vast quantities of it. It flows and it floods. When it floods, water spread over the land and drops silt. I always knew that. What I didn’t… Continue reading
In The Flow of Time – August 27, 2024 All y’all may need to organize an intervention. I’m plotting the novel. I’m not even sure this chapter will make it in, but I like it. It’s got color. It is in 1815, inside the St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans…. Continue reading
In The Flow of Time – August 26, 2024 I’m reading a marvelous non-fiction work built off the journals of the Societé d’Economie, which started in New Orleans in 1836, and lasted to the 1950s. Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood did not disappoint. It is… Continue reading
In The Flow of Time – August 24, 2024 How history makes it into fiction. I can’t write a novel in this time without at least mentioning a pivotal battle in the history of the United States. Yes, it happened after the peace treaty had been signed, before anyone involved… Continue reading
In The Flow of Time – August 21, 2024 Oh my god. Sometimes imagination becomes real. Back on July 7, I wrote about my plan to have a jazz funeral in the story. With only a little twitch, I can have a jazz funeral when her husband dies. Cool. Today… Continue reading
