Continuing on the book about my travels, after having been stalled for at least six months on the finer details of some things in Chapter II pertaining to events that took place in 1876, I wrote Chapter III in almost its entirity last Sunday. It pertains to my second project in Nigeria. I've tweaked it a bit in the ensuing week and now its ( Read more... )

   Alright so my work on the second chapter of the book about my travels had ben kind of stalled out since I started working full time in October. Initially I had had some other projects that took up my time on the evenings and then I'd forgotten the historical source material at a level of useful detail from the book I was most using (The History ( Read more... )

The following is an adaptation of part of Chapter II of the book I've been vaguely working on (though stalled for the last few months busy with other things)

Day 3 - February 15th, 2012 - Ibadan, Nigeria - The shaman exhales a fireball into the air, which curls away into swirls of dark smoke amid appreciative oohs and ahs. More than a hundred of ( Read more... )

   Okay this is definitely very first draft... in fact I literally just wrote it! and a voice in my head is definitely urging me not to post it until I've maybe had a few days to brew it up, but rather a purpose of setting out to post a bit every day was to compel myself to just get things written so here it is so I can see if I can try to continue ( Read more... )

   Today I substantially reworkeed the dream/flashback sections, and I'm very happy with it. I diced it up so instead of one block of it it's spread out. Recall it was my goal to integrate and parallel the historical bits with the real life bits and I feel that went very well. For example after the section where I arrive at Ibadan I inserted a ( Read more... )

   Continuing the posting of scenes from the memoir. This is page 19 of 21 currently written pages of chapter II so we're getting towards the end of what is currently written... though it's the weekend and I hope to finish the chapter over the weekend, hopefully!

Day 10 - Waxing Eloquent
February 22nd, 2012 - “Now back home I have a specially ( Read more... )

   Continuing the posting of scenes from the memoir...

Day 7 - A Special Treat
Sunday, February 19th, 2012 - “We’ve got a special treat for you!” Hattrick tells me excitedly in the car as we roll through the thonging traffic of the city. “We’re going to make amala ( Read more... )

   My home wifi has been down all evening, damn your eyes telstra! So finally I have resorted to using my phone data just to post this and do my nightly duolingo. This next scene doesn't really have any good internal dividing points so I'm just going to post it all at once.

Day 6 - Field Trip
February 18th, 2012 - “Look at that development, you ( Read more... )

   Today rather yet again I'm pretty tired by the time I'm getting aorund to this -- it's 9:30pm already! Tis swarming season and Ii had to investigate two potential swarms after work today, and then do the grocery shopping I've been too busy to do for the last several days, hence getting home very late. Anyway, next installment of hte memoir. I ( Read more... )

   Well maybe writing about it will help. Maybe it will jog some memory loose or I'll find at the end of some sentence the hidden answer that has thus far eluded me ( Read more... )