Plus ça Change – May 21, 2026 An interesting thing happened on the way to the chapter ending. I struggled with this chapter. It took days, and every rewrite seemed to go in a different direction. There is a good word for this, thrashing. The third part was the most… Continue reading
Plus ça Change – May 17, 2026 This is what writing is like; for me anyway. Odds are really good “birl” is a new word for you. English is a fantastic language. (I know two, so I do have some basis for comparison. I love the other one, too.) Marie… Continue reading
The Legend of Marie Laveaux These are the research articles and musing of my discoveries writing Laveaux: Mother. The oppression of slaves and free people of color in antebellum New Orleans has certain parallels in these days of modern times. The Making of Laveaux: Mother
Plus ça Change – May 13, 2026 My critique group (see Clustered Together) is still working on Dancer. We’re getting toward the end, and of late their feedback results in tweaks. Good tweaks, but the story is solid. Writing is never done. Although this goes back into Dancer, it’s the… Continue reading
Plus ça Change – May 13, 2026 I have an underlying theme that Marie experiences throughout her adult years in New Orleans. The Americans bought the territory in 1803. That started a culture war that lasted for decades, and Marie lived through it. As always there are exceptions, but the… Continue reading
Plus ça Change – May 1, 2026 Pantsing has consequences. I didn’t know who what when where why, but I expected something like this. I’m sure it’s going to happen again. At this point in the narrative, Marie’s father, Charles Laveaux, is a widow. His wife had money. She was… Continue reading
Plus ça Change – April 28, 2026 So, I’m walking with Marie down to the waterfront where she is going to see her sister Dolores off. Dolores is on her way to live her life in Paris. I know where ships docked on the waterfront. A map from the time… Continue reading
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Authors have always been on the scam end of things. Vanity publishing has been around for literal centuries, and content itself has been used, abused, and weaponized by creators, publishers, and critiquers. I mean, there’s something to the tropes of us working in the dark, alone, in writer garrets. The… Continue reading
Plus ça Change – April 26, 2026 There are chapters, and then there are chapters. I suppose it depends upon what sort of “thing” you’re writing about. Mine are family stories, tales of life, the universe, and everything, set back in time. I want the characters to be real people… Continue reading
