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An interesting podcast landed today, and I wanted to pass it on. I’ve mentioned The Book Incubator a few times. Mary Adkins promotes this writing program gently on the podcast, The First Draft Club. No further commercials.

Mary’s guest this week was Alle Mudrick, who leads a session on memoir writing in The Book Incubator. Having sat in on several of Alle’s sessions, I find her very much worth listening to.

Amy Griffin’s memoir, The Tell, is their subject. Griffin’s subjext is sexual abuse, and that’s where it gets complicated. What you need to know is Alle and Mary are very much of one mind, that memoir should be truthful, and that probably Amy Griffin shouldn’t have employed a ghost writer - whether intentionally or not, seems Griffin was ‘ghosted’ by him.

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Evans’ Rag

Vol 8 Issue 8

The worst heat broke, then the rains came down, and I was readying the pontoon boat to herd Layla on board as our only animal until realizing the batteries would get us to the middle of the lake, but launching ourselves over the dam wasn’t advisable. 

Layla the husky isn’t one for the heat. But rain, as long as thunder doesn’t accompany it, she’ll take one for the team. She knows where the dog towels are kept as well as we do. 

I had a number of stories written except for the polishing, but FIOS kept crapping out - like every ten minutes or so, so we bought a mesh network (rumored to be the best Wifi system) but it just confused our devices, not knowing which one to synch up with, so that one went back and we’re back to the same old Verizon intermittend FIOS. The Bose unit blinks in and out, as does my laptop’s connections. I’m now using Google docs for text—ever since MS Word was corrupted and Microsoft support went rogue. Something to do with my refusing to use CoPilot. 

I ordered a set of chisels and some limestone. That way nobody can accuse me of AI-ing my way to fame. Layla and I are very glad fall’s finally here.