teaching, traveling, taking pictures
This is Chapter 9 for my attempt at National Novel Writing Month. Enjoy! After his trip to Chicago, Collin would have his sons during the entirety of their Christmas holiday. They would open presents at his mom’s house first in La Crosse. Then they would drive up north to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and… Continue reading Christmas Break with the Boys
Chapter 8 for my attempt at National Novel Writing Month. Enjoy! Collin and his friend from college David were sitting in a Chicago dive bar. Hank William III—not his grandfather Hank William—was playing on the jukebox. The bar was dark and old looking, its décor had not been updated since the 1970s, but the staff… Continue reading A Dragon and an Eagle
Chapter 7 for National Novel Writing Month. Feel free to comment below. It was Saturday morning early November. The wind was hollering outside of the windows at Raf’s house. Most of the vegetation was brown and dead outside. Leaves had fallen from all of the trees. The bluffs alongside Wanetta had lost their green covering… Continue reading Saturday Morning
This is Chapter 6 for my attempt at National Novel Writing Month. I have written for half the month of November and crossed the halfway point in terms of the reaching the word count of 50,000 words. Feel free to comment below. Collin was sitting in the reception area of an office high rise that… Continue reading Pain behind Those Eyes
This is Chapter 5 for my attempt at National Novel Writing Month. Feel free to comment below. Collin’s Matrix pulled up outside of his old home. Lyla’s Saturn was parked outside. The curtains to the front window were drawn, but the light in the living room was on. He parked on the street not to… Continue reading When Life Hands You Lemons
This is Chapter 4 for my attempt at National Novel Writing Month. Feel free to comment below. Bargaining Raf, Collin, and Ana were sitting around the table in Raf’s kitchen. There were two empty beer bottles in front of each one of them. Raf was retrieving another round for them all. Ana watched Raf as… Continue reading The Five Stages of Grief and Loss (Part 2)
This is Chapter 3 for my attempt at National Novel Writing Month. This chapter is shorter, as will the next one. Both of them will explore similar themes within the divorce narrative. Feel free to leave a comment below. Depression Collin sat on the reclining end of the couch in Raf’s living room watching a… Continue reading The Five Stages of Grief and Loss (Part 1)
This is Chapter 2 of my attempt at writing a novel for National Novel Writing Month. If you haven't read and would like to read Chapter 1, please read my blog post entitled, "The Drive." Feel free to leave comments below. Enjoy! “Wanetta is a wonderful place to live and work. The city is situated… Continue reading Wanetta, Minnesota
My first four days of writing for National Novel Writing Month, representing 6855 words and the first chapter of my novel. Feel free to leave comments below. It was the second week of December. The semester had finished early, and Collin Nguyen was driving to the Gulf of Mexico. He hadn’t made it that far.… Continue reading The Drive
Hi Conan! I was in UWRF while you were the ISS Director and have been following your endeavors on Instagram since we met pretty much. I think its really cool how you have turned a journal to just keep in contact into a blog and so far looks like kept it going. I feel like… Continue reading Response to a Blog Reader
opusculum 