As
is the Provincetown tradition, I’ve been working non-stop for the summer and
only now finding the time to blog again. Not that I’ve got anything to show you
yet, but I’m happy to announce I am now a founding member of Thorvald Road
Writers and currently putting together our on-line presence. We're a spin off from last winter’s workshop
at the library except this group is writing novels.
So,
no prompts, no poetry, just the difficult but very satisfying task of reading
and revising and reading again in hopes of making it perfect. I’m still editing
the same novel I was working on before but it’s getting better and better.
One member is self-publishing a
book which is due out next week and has already begun working on the sequel.
Another has started her first novel after writing short stories for years and
it’s brilliant.
In
fact, it was her idea we name the group after Thorvald, the son of Erik the Red
and brother of Leif Erikson. He was the leader of a Viking expedition and spent
some time in Provincetown around 1007AD when the keel of their boat was damaged
and then repaired in our harbor. Local history tells of a stonewall discovered
during the 1805 renovation of a house down the street from me that has Viking
writing on it and is attributed to Thorvald. He is also said to be the first
European to die in North America, perhaps by Native American hand, and thought
to be buried near Boston.
We
plan to do public readings together as a group and put out a collection of
shorter pieces at some point in the future. But right now we’re just reading to
each other and giving helpful feedback, the real work. Here’s a photo of mine
that I’d like to use as our profile shot, stay tuned for further details!
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