Finally! The expanded outline to turn the first draft of Through The Mirror into a full series is done! It even meets in the middle, which is always a plus. Below is a picture of the initial stage of the outline.
Draft 2 Outline Done!
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Childbirth and the christmas story
As a child, I gave little thought to Mary’s birth experience in the Christmas story that I heard. She shows up on the donkey, beds down in the manger for the night, pops out the Savior, and shortly thereafter kneels in a neat and tidy manger scene wearing white without a hair out of place.
It was not until I gave birth to my own child that I came to appreciate the audacity that this telling of the Christmas story displays. In a holiday where childbirth is literally the main event, the actual labor and delivery is erased. After going through one of the better childbirth experiences myself – thirty-two hours of no sleep, waiting impatiently until the contractions finally became unspeakably painful so I could go to the hospital for actual labor, six hours of excruciating physical exertion, the usual amount of tearing and stitching, and the standard several weeks of postpartum bleeding – I had a few questions about the details of this story.
Continue reading “Childbirth and the christmas story”First draft of through the mirror done!
For both the first and probably the last time in my life, I finished a task ahead of when I expected to! And not just a little bit early, but almost a month and a half early! With any luck my original estimate of early 2020 for the release will continue to be on target. At least until the inevitable unforeseen delays catch up.
“he” and children’s literature
It’s always a bit of a shock to realize that social problems I think I’ve overcome still have their hooks in deep. In my case, this realization came as I was at my in-laws’ house watching my mother-in-law teach my two-year-old son about pronouns. Pronouns are inherently tricky. Simply sorting out when to use “I” versus “you” is a monumental cognitive task, and the inevitable errors in the process are normally sources of amusement and amazement for me. This day’s pronoun errors – less so.