As of a week ago, I (Grant) am a 2017 College Graduate, and this is a very exciting time for me. I kept my graduation rather low key. I didn't walk. In fact, I didn't ever buy a cap and gown. Someone asked me if I plan to frame my diploma, and you know, I might, but it's doubtful. College is an accomplishment, but I feel like a better representation of all that I learned from college and all that I have become is the other things that I'm completing and surrounded with.
1) The simplest of these is Abi's and my Spring Newsletter, just published, which represents a huge portion of our life and the things we're doing together. Available here. 2) Another is my recently completed long-term Journalism project that I have been working on with a professor from the UO for the last 11 weeks. Available here. 3) The completed novel that I posted about a few weeks ago that is undergoing a great deal of editing currently, and will shortly be sent off to find a publisher. 4) The short story that I am now announcing to be published August 1st. It's called "The Firebird." I've been working on this behind the scenes for over a year now, and it will be published towards the end of summer. There are so many more projects that Abi and I are working on that there is not enough time to mention them all. But we appreciate the support and are always open to questions. What are your summer plans?
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Ever since I can remember, I've been writing stories. I remember sitting in my parent's house on the floor with my spelling book while Mom decorated parts of the house. I must have been 7 or 8, and I had this daily or weekly spelling list from which I had to use a handful of the words in full written sentences. And more frequently than not, Mom would help me turn these sentences into a story.
Now years later, I'd like to think I've moved beyond "the CLOWN takes the BROWN COW to TOWN," but what I have yet to do is publish a full length novel. But this Spring I had an idea come to me that I can't stop writing about. I've been working on it for the past 2 months, I've nearly reached 60k words, and I felt like I wanted to share the idea with my friends and family. This is a fantasy story about a young woman named Serena who is trying to figure out how to run a kingdom as the only heir in the midst of a civil war. The only problem is that as a baby, she nearly died, and in their desperation to save her life, her parents made a pact with a witch. The witch brought Serena's spirit back from the underworld, but another spirit came with it. Fortunately this spirit is not hostile except that it wishes to keep Serena to itself. Thus the princess often finds herself isolated and lonely and unable to connect with other human beings. On top of this, she struggles with the question of: who decides who gets to live and who gets to die? Her own life was saved, but should it have been? Does she get to decide to send an army off to die whenever she wants? Why are their lives any different than hers? And what gives her the right to live when people are dying all around her? As I reach the end of the first draft, I am discussing with my professors the subject of agents, contracts, and publishing companies, and who knows, maybe I'll have a published novel under my belt before long. |
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January 2020
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