STATUS – 4.29.2025 –

Hello and good morning.

Not sure what to put here today, so I’m going to borrow an entry from this morning’s Morning Pages entry and try to be delicate with this, as I’m touching on something sensitive here. (But try to remember this is my online notebook, and sometimes things need to be written down to remember them later for important reasons.)

Her name was Elle. She was 4 1/2 years old…

I only worked with her one day a week.

But now I don’t get to work with her at all anymore. She passed away yesterday.

We prayed, as you do, but I’m not sure what for. Peace? The understanding of the outcome to shortly arrive? For the grace to handle whatever comes our way? It was almost impossible to see it coming, even thought like a sunset firing out redshift as it fades away, it came all the same.

I don’t know how to tell Kai. Or even if I should. Odds are he’ll forget her as the days and the weeks roll on, being a three year old and all, but I don’t want that. I want my boys to understand life is fragile. And important. And we talk about things like this.

Her name was Elle.

Her name is Elle.

PROJECT UPDATE:

#AMQUERYING – NESS and BIANCA. Pitched NESS last week and received a rejection for that pitch all in the same day. For BIANCA, I found an agent but did not finish that pitch. Going to follow up on it today.

CITY – Working on the plot outline. Copied over all the scrambled notes from the Field Notes I used for it, something I thought I didn’t NEED to do (but clearly I did) and now I feel more in tune with the story.

CURRENTLY LISTENING:

Nothing. Working to the quiet today.

CURRENTLY READING: I guess I’m still picking away at this, though right now it feels like a chore instead of actual enjoyment.