Continuing the book. At this point our protagonist has completed his first two project sites in Ethiopia and now heads to the third. And has been traveling in Africa a month now!M


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Continuing "the book." Any and all feedback to be yes plz.

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BAHIR DAR

Wednesday, April 25th [2012], Day 19, 6:30am - I realize at once my mistake. The severe-looking woman manning the airport baggage x-ray machine has just pulled from my bag a flat six-inch-long by inch-and-a-half-wide piece of stainless steel, bent ninety ( Read more... )

   Continuing with The Book, recall that last time we had the first two days in Ethiopia, introducing the reader to Ethiopia and establishing the goals here. Let us continue with the third day!


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   So I've been working on a book about my travels 2012-2022. Well I've spent I think nearly two years now just on the first year, which is not a very promising pace to ever finish but I think it's accelerating now a bit. In other news, writing a book length memoir is an interesting endeavour with entirely different challenges from the usual short ( 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... )

   So I recently interviewed my (third?) person for writing an article about them, this local elderly fellow who is very artistic and soon will be moving out of our little town, so the community paper wanted me to do an article about him. I walked the few hundred meters across the village to meet him at his lovely little cottage, we sat in his ( Read more... )

   Hola and felicitaciones. I wrote this on some napkins after I pissed on myself at the Dark Bar. Hope you enjoy my nude and improved fit-shaced writing style. ¡Vamos!
   Okay this is not my new writing style, but rather some excerpts from friend Doug's book. No not the Doug that I ran into in Nigeria, though that would have been hilarious indeed ( Read more... )

   Okay slight change of plans, I'm not gonna keep rushing ahead in a race against myself and time with the memoir thing but take some time to make more tweaks at Chapter II and feel my way into Chapter III / "Intersession I ( 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... )