I'm not fast. I haven't shared anything here for over 5 months, but I'm still working. I made it through transferring all the edits to new, clean documents for my stories, and I've finished revising 4 of the group of stories I'd set out to work on. Four others I'm still revising. I'm going back and forth between them, removing words, changing what a character says, hearing that she isn't really saying it at all, deleting what I thought was true, but isn't.

Other news: I lost my camera and found it again after several months. I attended the first annual Write in the Harbor conference for writers at the beginning of December. I took notes and listened hard for good advice.

The photo above is an old one. It's me picking huckleberries with Whirlie before she ever had a haircut. I like it because picking huckleberries is slow, and pleasurable. It adds up to something. It might not be important, but it is worthwhile. And that's how I think of writing, and rewriting, and creating, and removing, and doubting, and coming back again.