Excellent sources and experts consulted thus far in the research.
Update on the research: The re-collection of lost images week has begun. I’ve reordered the film to rescan those images, and I’m almost finished going over my entire database. It has been a painstaking, image-by-image process. I’m double-checking every fact I have on Emmett that I intend to use in […]
This was on the website “The Writer’s Circle.” I shared it with my students today. In book-writing news, my large butcher-block paper outlines are devolving into smaller, bite-sized outlines (but still drafted on new sheets of butcher-block paper). I am, at present, breaking the exposition section into subsections, and devising […]
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 […]
It is fair to conclude that Emmett’s law school diploma was most likely in Latin and his name was Latinized. I thought that was all that needed to be said about Emmett’s diploma: Emmett came home from Stetson, showed the nice diploma to all his friends, slapped it into a […]
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 […]
No one likes to find typographical errors in research documents. Not only are they distracting (i.e., if I find one, I will stop reading the document for content and instead read for other typos), they can give the impression that the data is flawed. Although you’ll find typographical errors in […]
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