I thought I’d be back up to speed with Emmett’s blogging/research this week, but it has been a difficult couple of days. On Sunday, a dear friend of mine died. You know that quote by Edna Buchanan: “Friends are the family we choose for ourselves?” That’s what I felt about […]
Maybe I should ask Bri Wi if he knows anything about Emmett Wilson, from a personal perspective? It is possible. Right?
Last night as I was trolling through the 1895 microfilm of The Chipley Banner, I discovered that Emmett’s brother, the Hon. Cephas L. Wilson, Esq., had not only a legal license, but a poetic license. Truth. Here’s more info about the poem from the same issue: I wonder why Ceph’s […]
Good news: The story architecture is roughed in. My colleagues have gotten used to the new wallpaper, and more than a few have commented favorably. The story architecture adventure has turned out to be a good teaching tool. Students who visit my office see that I practice what I […]
I’ve been off the blog grid for several days. Just busy teaching classes, taking classes, reading microfilm, shepherding children, drafting story architecture, and the like. Oh, and snow. DC didn’t get ‘hammered’ by the ‘historic blizzard;’ just an inch or so of snow. Because no one knows how to drive […]
Although I haven’t done much in the way of ‘writing’ this month, I have accomplished a lot on Emmett’s story architecture. The framework looks fairly solid up to the midpoint of his story. Over the next few days, I’m sketching in Part III — the ‘hero in action’ part of […]
“Pantsing’ is a term in the writing business that is short for “writing by the seat of your pants,” or, writing without a plan. It is something I’d been doing for a few months, and in December, it caught up with me. You see, I had a good idea about […]
One of the early hospitals in Pensacola was St. Anthony’s Hospital and Sanitarium, which also was known as the Pensacola Sanitarium. It was located at the corner of Garden and Baylen Streets. There weren’t many hospitals in Pensacola during the early 1900s; you certainly wouldn’t have seen a large medical […]
I’d love to be able to tell you that writing Emmett’s story is something that feels natural, easy, and fun 100 percent of the time. I wish that were the case. But the reality is that writing is a lot of work. Creating something that hasn’t existed before out of […]
If you recall, last month I had a question for Angela the Archivist at Stetson University about Emmett’s law school diploma; specifically: Was Emmett’s law school diploma in Latin? She said she’d get back to me after she and another archivist over at the law school dug around a bit […]
Tell my story. 