Early this morning, I completed my final edit of chapters five and six. When I write “final edit,” I mean the last changes I’ll make before Carole sends the manuscript to Jim, my literary agent. I may have many more edits before the manuscript turns into a book. Now I wait until Friday, when I [...]
Today has been a day of waiting, and I may have a few more as the week progresses. I’ve completed the edit of chapter eleven for Earning Freedom, leaving me with only the final chapter to work through. I can’t begin to until I receive the typed version from Carole. It may come in tomorrow’s [...]
I’m grateful to have received a loving letter from my mother in today’s mail. These 22 years that I’ve served have been difficult on her, and I’m sensitive to her pain, to her feeling of separation from me, her only son. I’ve spent my entire sentence in various federal prisons, all of which were more [...]
Earlier this summer, Peggy, a new writing mentor of mine who teaches English courses at a Nevada University, helped me with suggestions to improve my first chapter of Earning Freedom. Her insightful comments, together with lessons I learned on style from two writing books she sent, gave me more confidence as I sat down this [...]
