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My debut novel is with my agent, and I have now begun a monthly series on how I wrote Hiram Falls: the origin, the revisions, the changes, an intimate look at one writer's process: https://geoffreygevalt.substack.com/s/writing-hiram-falls

(Subscribe for free and you get a bonus: text and audio of character sketches performed by Vermont Stage Company.)

My first post: An 1892 diary of a teenage girl...
#WritingCommunity #fiction #HiramFalls #writing #writers #firstnovel #magicalrealism

My debut novel is with my agent, and I have now begun a monthly series on how I wrote Hiram Falls: the origin, the revisions, the changes, an intimate look at one writer's process: https://geoffreygevalt.substack.com/s/writing-hiram-falls

(Subscribe for free and you get a bonus: text and audio of character sketches performed by Vermont Stage Company.)

My first post: An 1892 diary of a teenage girl...
#WritingCommunity #fiction #HiramFalls #writing #writers #firstnovel #magicalrealism

My debut novel is with my agent, and I have now begun a monthly series on how I wrote Hiram Falls: the origin, the revisions, the changes, an intimate look at one writer's process: https://geoffreygevalt.substack.com/s/writing-hiram-falls

(Subscribe for free and you get a bonus: text and audio of character sketches performed by Vermont Stage Company.)

My first post: An 1892 diary of a teenage girl...
#WritingCommunity #fiction #HiramFalls #writing #writers #firstnovel #magicalrealism

My debut novel is with my agent, and I have now begun a monthly series on how I wrote Hiram Falls: the origin, the revisions, the changes, an intimate look at one writer's process: https://geoffreygevalt.substack.com/s/writing-hiram-falls

(Subscribe for free and you get a bonus: text and audio of character sketches performed by Vermont Stage Company.)

My first post: An 1892 diary of a teenage girl...
#WritingCommunity #fiction #HiramFalls #writing #writers #firstnovel #magicalrealism

My debut novel is with my agent, and I have now begun a monthly series on how I wrote Hiram Falls: the origin, the revisions, the changes, an intimate look at one writer's process: https://geoffreygevalt.substack.com/s/writing-hiram-falls

(Subscribe for free and you get a bonus: text and audio of character sketches performed by Vermont Stage Company.)

My first post: An 1892 diary of a teenage girl...
#WritingCommunity #fiction #HiramFalls #writing #writers #firstnovel #magicalrealism

#writingcommunity #firstnovel #WIP

Sometimes magic happens. I just received word that a kick-ass agent with jewels for clients has agreed to represent my book, #HiramFalls

Hurdle one is cleared. Now for the second ...

Finding an agent seemed a dreary enterprise, and I feel blessed that my misery lasted but six weeks.

#writingcommunity #firstnovel #WIP

Sometimes magic happens. I just received word that a kick-ass agent with jewels for clients has agreed to represent my book, #HiramFalls

Hurdle one is cleared. Now for the second ...

Finding an agent seemed a dreary enterprise, and I feel blessed that my misery lasted but six weeks.

#writingcommunity #firstnovel #WIP

Sometimes magic happens. I just received word that a kick-ass agent with jewels for clients has agreed to represent my book, #HiramFalls

Hurdle one is cleared. Now for the second ...

Finding an agent seemed a dreary enterprise, and I feel blessed that my misery lasted but six weeks.

#writingcommunity #firstnovel #WIP

Sometimes magic happens. I just received word that a kick-ass agent with jewels for clients has agreed to represent my book, #HiramFalls

Hurdle one is cleared. Now for the second ...

Finding an agent seemed a dreary enterprise, and I feel blessed that my misery lasted but six weeks.

#writingcommunity #firstnovel #WIP

Sometimes magic happens. I just received word that a kick-ass agent with jewels for clients has agreed to represent my book, #HiramFalls

Hurdle one is cleared. Now for the second ...

Finding an agent seemed a dreary enterprise, and I feel blessed that my misery lasted but six weeks.

Spring in #Vermont: We got a dump of 14-16 inches of heavy wet snow, and were house bound April 4 & 5. When is spring coming?

But it was a great opportunity to finish making a final pass -- clean-up and tightening -- on #HiramFalls

I just sent out the finished manuscript to a potential agent who asked to see it.

Wish me luck!

#firstnovel #writing
#photography
#writingcommunity

Spring in #Vermont: We got a dump of 14-16 inches of heavy wet snow, and were house bound April 4 & 5. When is spring coming?

But it was a great opportunity to finish making a final pass -- clean-up and tightening -- on #HiramFalls

I just sent out the finished manuscript to a potential agent who asked to see it.

Wish me luck!

#firstnovel #writing
#photography
#writingcommunity

Spring in #Vermont: We got a dump of 14-16 inches of heavy wet snow, and were house bound April 4 & 5. When is spring coming?

But it was a great opportunity to finish making a final pass -- clean-up and tightening -- on #HiramFalls

I just sent out the finished manuscript to a potential agent who asked to see it.

Wish me luck!

#firstnovel #writing
#photography
#writingcommunity

Spring in #Vermont: We got a dump of 14-16 inches of heavy wet snow, and were house bound April 4 & 5. When is spring coming?

But it was a great opportunity to finish making a final pass -- clean-up and tightening -- on #HiramFalls

I just sent out the finished manuscript to a potential agent who asked to see it.

Wish me luck!

#firstnovel #writing
#photography
#writingcommunity

Spring in #Vermont: We got a dump of 14-16 inches of heavy wet snow, and were house bound April 4 & 5. When is spring coming?

But it was a great opportunity to finish making a final pass -- clean-up and tightening -- on #HiramFalls

I just sent out the finished manuscript to a potential agent who asked to see it.

Wish me luck!

#firstnovel #writing
#photography
#writingcommunity

Finished!

First novel.
5 years.
6 staged character sketches.
10 drafts.
Immeasurable help from others.

#wip #hiramfalls #writingcommunity #fiction #photography #novel #firstnovel #writing #writers #literaryfiction #magicalrealism #historical

Finished!

First novel.
5 years.
6 staged character sketches.
10 drafts.
Immeasurable help from others.

#wip #hiramfalls #writingcommunity #fiction #photography #novel #firstnovel #writing #writers #literaryfiction #magicalrealism #historical

Finished!

First novel.
5 years.
6 staged character sketches.
10 drafts.
Immeasurable help from others.

#wip #hiramfalls #writingcommunity #fiction #photography #novel #firstnovel #writing #writers #literaryfiction #magicalrealism #historical

Finished!

First novel.
5 years.
6 staged character sketches.
10 drafts.
Immeasurable help from others.

#wip #hiramfalls #writingcommunity #fiction #photography #novel #firstnovel #writing #writers #literaryfiction #magicalrealism #historical

Finished!

First novel.
5 years.
6 staged character sketches.
10 drafts.
Immeasurable help from others.

#wip #hiramfalls #writingcommunity #fiction #photography #novel #firstnovel #writing #writers #literaryfiction #magicalrealism #historical

#MastoPrompt

Millard -- frantic, confused, frightened -- stops at the Upper Bridge above the Falls. He stares at the frothing water, watches as a lone log, freshly gashed and snapped, careens down under him, down the other side. He wonders what it would be like to ride it, to #wrestle the waves and currents. The more he thinks about it, the more he realizes that is exactly what he has been feeling lately, rushing, out of control, heading to somewhere unknown.

#HiramFalls #WritingCommunity

And a fine morning to you Fediverse,

#3goodthings

1. 14 inches of new snow.
2. Weather pattern perfect for sugaring: 20s at night, 40s in the day for the next 10 days!
3. #Writing on my #WIP #HiramFalls has resumed; energy & excitement are back.

Thank you all in the #WritingCommunity and remember that #FeedbackFriday can help YOU, too!
#photography #Vermont #maplesugaring

#WritingCommunity

After some debate with myself, I have written a piece about the fact I am frozen in my tracks at the sixth revision of my #WIP , #HiramFalls .
I need your help. #FeedbackFriday

Here it is: https://medium.com/fuck-niches/what-its-like-to-wait-592dd8998fb2?sk=585fd930d651040de877f89d6807c29e

That's a friend link --- you should be able to read it having to jump through hoops.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, advice as to how I can get #unfrozen.

#writers #amwriting #firstnovel #fiction

#WritingCommunity

After some debate with myself, I have written a piece about the fact I am frozen in my tracks at the sixth revision of my #WIP , #HiramFalls .
I need your help. #FeedbackFriday

Here it is: https://medium.com/fuck-niches/what-its-like-to-wait-592dd8998fb2?sk=585fd930d651040de877f89d6807c29e

That's a friend link --- you should be able to read it having to jump through hoops.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, advice as to how I can get #unfrozen.

#writers #amwriting #firstnovel #fiction

#WritingCommunity

After some debate with myself, I have written a piece about the fact I am frozen in my tracks at the sixth revision of my #WIP , #HiramFalls .
I need your help. #FeedbackFriday

Here it is: https://medium.com/fuck-niches/what-its-like-to-wait-592dd8998fb2?sk=585fd930d651040de877f89d6807c29e

That's a friend link --- you should be able to read it having to jump through hoops.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, advice as to how I can get #unfrozen.

#writers #amwriting #firstnovel #fiction

#WritingCommunity

After some debate with myself, I have written a piece about the fact I am frozen in my tracks at the sixth revision of my #WIP , #HiramFalls .
I need your help. #FeedbackFriday

Here it is: https://medium.com/fuck-niches/what-its-like-to-wait-592dd8998fb2?sk=585fd930d651040de877f89d6807c29e

That's a friend link --- you should be able to read it having to jump through hoops.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, advice as to how I can get #unfrozen.

#writers #amwriting #firstnovel #fiction

#WritingCommunity

After some debate with myself, I have written a piece about the fact I am frozen in my tracks at the sixth revision of my #WIP , #HiramFalls .
I need your help. #FeedbackFriday

Here it is: https://medium.com/fuck-niches/what-its-like-to-wait-592dd8998fb2?sk=585fd930d651040de877f89d6807c29e

That's a friend link --- you should be able to read it having to jump through hoops.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, advice as to how I can get #unfrozen.

#writers #amwriting #firstnovel #fiction

I forgot the intro part of today's #WritingWonders ... I'm in my Third Life.

1. Journalist, mostly newspapers (remember them?) for 33 years. Worked with fantastic people, we won lots of awards, put some crooks in jail.
2. Started & ran a nonprofit that helped kids write better (gave them audience all over the state) and teachers teach writing better (gave them private websites and training to write and comment with their kids).
3. Now three years into #firstnovel, #HiramFalls. Getting there.

I forgot the intro part of today's #WritingWonders ... I'm in my Third Life.

1. Journalist, mostly newspapers (remember them?) for 33 years. Worked with fantastic people, we won lots of awards, put some crooks in jail.
2. Started & ran a nonprofit that helped kids write better (gave them audience all over the state) and teachers teach writing better (gave them private websites and training to write and comment with their kids).
3. Now three years into #firstnovel, #HiramFalls. Getting there.

I forgot the intro part of today's #WritingWonders ... I'm in my Third Life.

1. Journalist, mostly newspapers (remember them?) for 33 years. Worked with fantastic people, we won lots of awards, put some crooks in jail.
2. Started & ran a nonprofit that helped kids write better (gave them audience all over the state) and teachers teach writing better (gave them private websites and training to write and comment with their kids).
3. Now three years into #firstnovel, #HiramFalls. Getting there.

#Mastoprompt #barely (concept) #WIP #HiramFalls
Tim Bergeron, 29, one of the first Hiram Falls residents to go to war in 1917, and the last to return in 1919, spent most of his time on the front as a cannoneer. One day in late October, his unit faces each other and passes the 18-pound shell down the line to Bergeron who lowers it carefully into the cannon. Just as he does that, just as he is about to close the breech, an enemy shell comes in and takes out every member of his unit. Except him.

Millard has tried to heed his father’s #reproach

“You are weak, Millard. You are susceptible to the wiles of loose women and libation. You have no self-discipline,” his father had said in a searing lecture that May morning when he was summarily dispatched to Boston University to study economics.

“Make something of yourself,” his father had said. “Prove you are worthy.”

Millard could feel the heat on his face even after all these months.

#MastoPrompt #WIP #HiramFalls

All day David kept thinking about the 1918 diary that had mysteriously appeared on his desk. Late that night, the newsroom and building quiet and dark, he resumed his reading, a #cathartic sensation this stopping, taking a breath, this reading of something from so long ago.

He pushed away his questions: Who was the writer? Why was the diary put on my desk? What's in it? He just read, unaware that one of the entries would change his life.

#MastoPrompt #HiramFalls #WritingCommunity #amwriting

#MastoPrompt

It is mid-afternoon when the storm finally breaks, the snow slows, then stops, just occasional flecks. The clouds zip across the sky. The temperature is #plummeting, even as the sun pokes out. Earl collects his horse at the stable and starts the long ride up Mt. Riga Road, the snow in places almost up to his horse’s chest. The mare knows how to cope, stepping high, bringing up a cloud of snow with each stride. 'She’s a good mare,' Earl thinks. 'Feck it’s cold.'

#HiramFalls

#MastoPrompt

Lavender wants to tell everyone about how that fallen tree up by Helen Thompson's would have killed her had that man not appeared, the man who fecking disappeared into the fecking thin air.

Had she told them, some might have doubted her #veracity. But not Doc. He might have told her how the man saved him in a snowstorm. Vera might have confirmed rumors that her husband, Ben, sees him all the time.

Lavender takes another bite of her pie.

#HiramFalls #WritingCommunity #Vermont

Millard had no interest in seeing the body, the way his father had fallen forward on the desk, his head slamming down so hard Sarah, his assistant, had come rushing in. Millard had no interest in seeing how his father had drooled onto the papers on his desk, how his cheek was so badly stained from the spilled ink the undertaker suggested a closed casket.

“Just burn him," Millard told him.

“Do you mean cremation, sir?”

"Isn't that what cremation is?"

#MastoPrompt #venerate #HiramFalls

#HiramFalls #MastoPrompt

The bear is confused. She has never seen a human who could talk to her, much less argue.
'I am in no mood for this,' she #sniffles. She's been eating blackberries & blueberries & chokeberries & elderberries and evacuating her insides all over the mountain. 'I just want to lay down.'
'Why don't you?' the man thinks.
'I would like to. But I do not trust you.'
'Why?'
You humans are alike. You want us to trust you and then you kill us.'
'I have no need to kill.'

#writer