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I'm posting!!! I have plans!
One of the publishers I work with just replied to an email so I'll have news soon. And National Novel Writing Month is coming up in November. I'm a municipal liaison for the Saginaw Bay region in Michigan. While I'm excitedly planning for the ability to meet in person again (crossing my fingers that Covid cases don't shoot up to high risk again in my area), I'm also thinking on my writing/publishing. I continue to type away on Hank and Petunia's story- she has ageplay experience and he doesn't, but can he still be her Daddy?- and I think on my new project for Nanowrimo 2022- Amygdala and Sapir are on item? And what's Audrey doing in the story? Joelle
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When you pick up a book, are you looking to escape your daily existence?
My answer to that question is no because as a multiply marginalized person I don't see enough of people like me and my daily living to find comfort in escapism. I want to see people with more similarities to myself than I see in mainstream media. I'm going to be all sorts of rambly. It's been way too long since I posted. And well it's National novel writing month so I'm thinking with lots of words LOL.
Talking to my friend at bayonet press and looking at when books can come out. You'd like to read something more for me wouldn't you?  Woot! Well Masturbation Monday didn't happen today for me, but I'm doing my first "comment on a vlog script" type vlog. I don't believe this is quite what Rogan Shannon does with his website, but my pairing a vlog with a blog post was inspired by him. The sections in this shade of blue are my comments about the vlog script- sometimes things I realized after I finished recording that I stated incorrectly, sometimes just additional explanations. Haha! "Quick Library Haul"- yes, I managed over 10 minutes, even if I had only 4 books I talked about. Hey. So this is going to be a quick library haul. Um... "Forbidden Signs" by Douglass C. Baynton, I think. I unfortunately am not going to get to finish this book because it needed to be renewed on Friday and I didn't manage to. It's been really interesting though, it talked about in one chapter specifically about how the rise of oralism as a method of teaching Deaf and Hard of Hearing people arose along with more women becoming teachers. Well worth the read, even if I wasn't able to read it all before it has to go back to the library. Um... I'm feeling a little bit too... too much in terms of books about Deafness and sign language in general. It has to be very specific not to be something that is going to repeat something I've already read. Like another book in, that I have going. Let me grab it out of the bottom of the library pile. "Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South." Now this is written by Mary Herring Wright. This one, I'm looking forward to because I haven't read more than one book on the experience, the very specific experiences of Black and Deaf people. And for my story "Two Houses" where Bea's parents are both Black and Deaf and grew up in the United States South before Jim Crow... errr. not before it but during Jim Crow and of course Bea herself is Hard of Hearing so I wanted to have that specific experience that she would have. Bea's identity has been the subject of much ponder for me. I started off writing thinking of her as a CODA- a child of Deaf adults. Well one important plot point is Bea's Meniere's Disease and hearing issues. For now, at least, I've switched to Hard of Hearing to describe Bea, even if she leans heavily towards being culturally Deaf. So that book hopefully, I will manage to finish it. And you see me shaking my head because my daughter just wandered out into the living room. And I'm hoping she will be quiet so I can actually get through this unscripted Library Haul. Now, I'm onto "Destined to Witness" by Hans J. Massaquoi. I'm... I'm still hoping that I'm guessing right on his pronunciation of his last name. Um... bi... a biracial boy. I'm not getting the picture too well for [squealing door interrupts the video]. Okay so my daughter felt the need to open the door, which very loud and squeally so I stopped. Hopefully I will be able to manage to edit most of that out. But "Destined to Witness." Um... I have about two weeks to finish this. Unfortunately I've already renewed it once. I'm hoping to get through it because I really enjoy World War 2... um... history. However, it is a 443-page book. It is an autobiography and there are no footnotes so I might do better actually finishing it in time. I hope so because, yes it is only October 15th, but we are quickly getting close to National Novel Writing Month in November. And I already have my idea and a really brief outline of ideas. I am a plantser even though I... I lean heaviest towards pantsing, but with how often I write characters who have different sexual and gender identities, that tends to be something that I need to consider beforehand. And I hope to do a short vlog about that soon. In case you aren't already familiar with National Novel Writing Month, let me give you some explanations. A pantser is someone who writes "by the seat of their pants"- in other words, without plots, outlines, character sketches, and such. A plotter is someone who writes with all these things- outlines and all. A plantser approaches writing somewhere in between those two poles and that's what I tend to do during NaNoWriMo. At this point in my vlog, I ended up talking about "No Plot? No Problem"- even though I was focused on library books and this is my book. I was able to treat myself a few years ago to an autographed copy from the NaNoWriMo store. Although it will be without books so there likely be Audrey dolly rather than me, me trying to um... just deal with my face on [mumbled] camera. "No Plot? No Problem!" by Chris Baty. I... I'm reading it again. I probably have memorized portions of it. That is... written by Chris Baty who created the National Novel Writing Month. And that book is such a wonderful guide and it has helps in it. I appreciate the fact that there are helps specific to each week of National Novel Writing Month and the problems and possibilities of each week are outlined with suggestions. He also goes into some things to do with your book after National Novel Writing Month is finished. Um... I have never managed to very successfully get through his after-NaNo suggestions, but I have found them enjoyable. And finally the last library book I have on hand right now: "Finding Zoe" {mumbles} The subtitle is: "A Deaf woman's story of identity, love, and adoption." By Brandi Rarus and Gail Harris. This one, I'm looking forward to. I had gotten into a place where I... there were at least two or three different Deaf culture books that I didn't finish one that was about... didn't even start one that was about parenting Deaf children. And I did not finish one called "Made to Hear." Um... you'll have to go to my other Library Haul and I'll put that link up in a card for you. But I understood that the author of "Made to Hear" was... approached learning about cochlear implants as an ethn...ethnographer. I have just killed that word. Sorry. But she was an observer. She wasn't trying to fix things. And I find a lot of the process of getting a cochlear implant to be very offensive. It's one thing if cochlear implants are used as tools to help. Both Amanda McDonough [her name is a clickable link to go to her vlog about still being Deaf even with a CI] and um... Leah Coleman have talked at some point about how wonderful cochlear implants have been for them as a tool. But it doesn't mean that those women aren't Deaf anymore. Deafness is still part of their identity. And the many hearing professionals who try erase Deaf identity through cochlear implants, I think they're going in entirely the wrong direction. Let me see... oh and I actually went through all of my books. But "Finding Zoe," when I talked about how I was frustrated with the "Made to Hear" book. And I didn't manage to get through Harlan Lane's um... that also you'll have to see the title because it was in my other library haul and I can't remember it. But, I tried to read something that Harlan published, wrote and published on his own before "A Journey into the Deaf-World." And I quickly got frustrated. It was too much that I had already read countless times before. And this time, it was by a hearing person. And no matter how supportive Harlan Lane is or was- I'm not sure if he's still alive. I have to look that up in a second. But no matter how supportive Harlan is of Deaf people and the Deaf community, he's still a hearing person and his opinion only counts for so much, in my opinion. I wanted to expound on this a bit more: I know it seems messy, but from my social justice understanding, as a hearing person, my place is to lift up the voices of Deaf/Hard of Hearing people where possible because I have systemic privilege that they don't. That said, I don't think I or any other hearing person's opinions on Deaf culture matter that much, certainly not more than any DHH's person's opinion. So while some people will listen more to a hearing person (like in this case, Harlan Lane), I'm more interested in what DHH people themselves have to say about their lives. But um... so I'm through my books and I should read and actually write something today. And I have church in a few hours since I go to Church of the Larger Fellowship, the online UU church. And I will leave you there. Please consider my Patreon, my Ko-fi. These are all wonderful ways that you can help me to be able to produce vlogs and books and blog posts. And of course if you want to enjoy my website where you can read all sorts of free fiction that I've put out there, in addition to finding my buy links for the different books I have published. And Apple Jack will say hi quick. And because you haven't seen her yet today, here is Audrey dolly. [Silly voice] Hi!. And that was pretty silly so I'm going to ask that you enjoy all of my social media links and reach out, comment here please. I love talking to people. And I will wish you a good day. And I hope your week is as good as mine. 
I spent some time writing special scenes in "Two Houses" and then realized I'd already shared a post about Teal meeting Bea's parents. Trying to decide what to do for this week and next on #WipItUpWednesday, I thought of sharing Nano-prep. On my Facebook timeline, I shared the 4 names I've come up with the quad relationship that's going to be my romance in November. Btw, I haven't figured out who of these 4 might be my Autistic character, although one of them will be. I also haven't figured out who I'm going to introduce to my characters first.
---- IOVITA m&f Ancient Roman Latin masculine and feminine form of JOVITA. From the name Jove. She has a midpoint clitorophallus but identifies as cisgender, not intergender HAPPY f&m English (Rare) From the English word,happy. Not their deadname, although hippy parents suggested it. Non-binary MAIRÉAD f Irish Irish form of MARGARET. Pearl. Her nickname would be Mysie. Transgender woman who has had vaginoplasty and an orchie, but HRT produced small breasts that she likes. She still takes estrogen even though she doesn't have to take an androgen blocker anymore. ZIBA (1)f Persian Means "beautiful" in Persian. Muslim bisexual hijabi woman. She enjoys breaking stereotypes of hijabis. Powered by Linky Tools Click here to enjoy the other #WipItUpWednesday hoppers |
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