Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Summer
I have now successfully made the transition from teacher to writer, which will be my master status this summer. Here, I am in the beautiful library of the Yale Club of New York, working on chapter one of Senators, Crackheads, Power and Money: What We Can Learn From Crack.
I love this part of my job, much as I love the teaching part. The transition from one to the other, though, can be jarring. Teaching is completely social-- it necessarily happens in community with my students. Anything I might accomplish is going to occur in my interaction with them. Writing is the opposite-- it requires solitude and seclusion.
Both are wonderful, both are important, and I am lucky to have both be a part of my work.
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Ditto, she writes from St. Benedict's Monastery, where she is sharing an apartment with her daughter, each of whom has her own spacious office in which to write. (God bless St. Benedict's Visiting Scholars Program.) Elena is working on the short story she is wriring for an anthology some young women are working on together and I'm working on my book adapting Buddhist meditations for Christians.
Gotta love summer writing time!
Gotta love summer writing time!
That is a beautiful place to write. I hope you enjoy your time and were able to have breakfast outdoors today as it was such a cool and beautiful morning.
# posted by 
: 11:43 AM
: 11:43 AM
Two questions come to mind--each of which probably reveals that there is something fundametally wrong with me:
1) Is the light bulb on the far right (of the picture) burned out, or is it just turned off?
2) Do you set up a camera to take these pictures of yourself, or do you have a personal photographer?
1) Is the light bulb on the far right (of the picture) burned out, or is it just turned off?
2) Do you set up a camera to take these pictures of yourself, or do you have a personal photographer?
# posted by : 5:22 PM
: 5:22 PM
Have you ever considered writing a novel?--say,where you just sat down with an idea for a character or a situation and had no idea what would befall that character until you wrote it ? Perhaps this character might be obsessed by phrases from the creeds which played in his head until he thought he might go stark-raving mad....and the people surrounding him seemed to be reciting these selfsame phrases over and over aloud like robots.
# posted by : 6:04 PM
: 6:04 PM
Well, I think the question now becomes, when will we get to have the Osler novel serialized on a weekly basis, chapter by chapter. These things need to be out there Osler. Give the people what they want.
# posted by : 7:03 PM
: 7:03 PM
Okay,fine...drive the rest of us to distraction by casually mentioning the novel and then dropping it. And then anonymous "loves" it. Has it been published? Could we just have a wee morsel of it to decide for ourselves? Inquiring minds want to know.Serializing it is a good idea--you would be in the company of Charles Dickens. I side with RRL,even if he's not crazy about my being on his side.
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