I’ve been interested in the Mellel word processor for years. But as I’ve switched my writing format to Markdown, and my writing environment to Scrivener, I haven’t had much of a reason to put the software through it’s paces past it’s trial period. Until now, that is. Each Summer I put together the annual directory…
Month: June 2016
Context is key
I didn’t get a chance to do so, but I wanted to take one of the police officers aside yesterday and ask how weird to felt to sit back and allow people to have a firefight1 right in front of them. They were good folks, and managed the crowd well, even when they had to…
Nerding, historically
Today my wife volunteered to help host the open house at the Indian King Tavern. It’s an important site for New Jersey history in Haddonfield. When the Patriot legislature fled Northern Jersey for the South, it met in it’s long room. In that space it adopted the seal for the newly organized state and formally…
Down the shore
I’m not much of a “beach person.” I love body-surfing waves and reading for a few hours, but the idea of sitting out in the sand all day while the Sun beats down is not my idea of a good time 1. On the other hand, I love the Jersey Shore. It’s sounds, smells, and…
Unpacking The end of a road
This was a very different passage. Let’s unpack. Time jump I’ve been writing this story for over a year, but in story time that only amounted to several days. So I took the opportunity to speed up time a bit. It allowed me to shift things up and prod the story along. It was an…
Fiction Tuesday (on Wednesday) – The end of a road
Today’s blog is the continuation of, Welcome to the Valleys. If you would like to catch up with the tale, the first section can be found at this link Later, Jeremy didn’t recall much of the next several months spent in the Ravine. Seven days after Walter’s initial petition to have The Coastlands brought under the Senate’s jurisdiction, the…
