BUILD ON LAND THAT YOU OWN: a phrase which here means “build your author following through a newsletter that you have control over, rather than through social media which you could lose access to”

A short update on where I am in the writing process in May 2025.

Take a walk down Memory Lane with me as we look at how I became a writer.

In which I make some excellent and admirable progress on my novel and am thoroughly pleased.

Project Muligul

Draft 7

95,000 words

For Frodo.

🎵 Butterfly in the sky,
I can go twice as high
Take a look, it's in a book,
A Reading Rainbow! 🎵

istoriagenesis

(is-TOR-ee-uh-JEN-uh-sis) (noun)

the origin, creation, or beginning of a story, myth, or history

So...
be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray
Or Nicole Marie Herring Van Allen O'Shea,
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting.
So...get on your way!