The Sound of Silence and Shifting Gears

Sound of Silence

They’d just fished, no talk, with the only sounds in their ears all afternoon a beaver dam’s steady churning dashed with odd splashes and topped from time to time by the thin whine of a cast line or punctuated from below by the dim plop of a sinker.

- By me... from a short story manuscript

There’s awkward silence and angry silence, but this is an example of what might be called “communal silence.” A great thing!

Shifting Gears

Blog tour done. Thanks to everyone who looked in/commented. My productive hours have continued to decline with disease progression - I was able to do all those guest posts by writing about half of them over a period of the few months prior to the tour starting, but at this point…

More time pressure. Recent progression of the disease means less time than ever for personal stuff like visiting the blogs of longstanding blogging buddies and answering personal email.

A different approach. Thought I’d try something different – no idea if it will work. But instead of posting about this or that, I thought I’d try focusing most of my future posts on particular topics that go together in a sequence that makes sense. In other words, thought I might try blogging a book, or at least material that could pretty easily be turned into a manuscript.

An experiment - it may not work at all, no idea.