A Letter from Laura D.
Letter from reader Laura D.
I felt like I had found a missing part of myself. Inujini is my expression of that missing part.
“The past few months changed me. After I came out of the week long COVID fever I was convinced I had been “rewired” and that feeling hasn’t left.”
Novel done, but now begins the next phase: editing to ∞. For now, I have had the immense pleasure of writing THE END.
Right now if I stay on a 2,500 word daily goal I’ll still finish on time. I’ll do what it takes to get it done.
There have been quite a few distractions the past two weeks, but I’ve managed to cut through them so I can return to Inujini.
All my disgusting, cranky, ice cream eating activity is part of the process. Our failures are only fails if we leave them on the floor. As long as we pick ourselves up, wipe the chocolate off our faces and continue, it’s a win.
I’m trying to keep my head down and stay focused but today I failed. I couldn’t concentrate on the novel because this poem wanted out. It’s out.
Completely by coincidence I began writing my novel about the Battle of Okinawa on the day of rememberance for the Battle of Okinawa. Synchronicity, kismet, fate… What do you think?
Where I am in the story: it’s the next morning and Yuki’s family is headed for the caves to hide. A Japanese soldier has come through the village to warn the island people that the Americans are coming. He gives Yuki’s father a grenade in case.