Progress has slowed this week, but there is still progress.
1. Finished up a couple of small scenes.
2. Spent a lot of time working on plugging holes in the story.
3. Engaged in thematic noodling.
4. Last week, I posted this picture of the Lost Oney School, circa 1932.
5. This week, I found this picture of the Lost Oney School while searching Oklahoma ghost town webpages.
6. What the site of the Lost Oney School looked like when I visited in 2011. That is the inside hallway I am standing on. That white stuff? Floor tile. It crackled like the dry bones of the dead school when I stepped on it.
7. This all made me sad.
8. Our Town by Iris DeMent. This song is in the current writing playlist mix. for obvious reasons. “Among her best known songs is Our Town. It was written after a drive through a small Oklahoma town…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9IUj1mDENg
Looking at my calender, I seem to have 124,683 pounds of stuff to cram into an 8 pound bag, so progress might be non-existent over the course of the next week. We shall see.
Ghosts Of the Places We Live