HeyJaredHistory, Landscape, Birds & Stories
Writing about birding, history, and landscape, both in fictional worlds and the world under this sun.
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This Writer’s Diary (opens the original)
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I had hoped this edition of my newsletter would include some discussion of the subtle-and-not-so-subtle influence of Arthurian legend on the Empire’s Legacy series. But life has rather changed that plan, and, frankly, that discussion can wait. Being present and useful for a friend, in the aftermath of an accident that has left her hospitalized for an indefinite amount of time, has taken priority.I’ve just finished lunch out with my husband, in celebration of our 45th wedding anniversary — our ac
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Friday morning – yesterday as I write this, two days ago (or more) as you read it – I stood on a path running through prairie. The trailhead was an hour behind me; I was alone. I could hear no cars on the gravel road several kilometers behind me, only the calls of Sprague’s pipits high above me in the clear sky. (If you can spare 23 seconds, watch the video below to see where I was.)I’d come to Grasslands National Park in southwestern Saskatchewan in part to sort out what to do about writing. Bl
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The first migratory shorebirds are heading south, and An Unwise Prince is with its first readers. Turning points, both, halfway through this year.The Greater Yellowlegs and the Solitary Sandpiper reported on e-Bird this week for my locale are likely unsuccessful breeders. An Unwise Prince, I hope, isn’t an unsuccessful third draft – but neither is it close to finished. My first readers are people I trust with the story, who know what I’m trying to do, know my world, and, for two of them, know my
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