Good morning! I woke to a mist rising over the rooftops and the skies have remained gray, a perfect day for writing. First a little catching up because it’s been awhile:
I’m still reading Darrin Doyle’s The Beast in Aisle 34, not because it is a long read–it reads very well and the pacing is perfect–simply because I have a job outside of writing that takes up a lot of my time and my home life is pretty busy too. With that said, I can’t wait to write the review on it. I am loving it so far. I’ll be sure to focus on Doyle’s excellent use of the POV lens and how right from the first page we see how the werewolf’s lens and Sandy Kurtz’s lens work to separate the man from the beast, which is an excellent craft technique that shows duality–a division into two opposites that Sandy seems to have to reconcile into one. I say seems because I haven’t finished the novel yet. So, there is a sneak peek on that.
I am currently working on a short story that I have let sit and stew in my brain for way too long. So I have turned on my playlist and off to the world of imagination, determination, exaggeration, annihilation, and edits I go.
-’till next time,
Julie
Notes from the Boat 