Topic: The Problem of Revenge
For months, I've been preoccupied with a new writing project. Chances are you've given up on me coming back to the blog.
Never fear. I can tell you exactly what happened. Only two days after my last entry in early April, I stumbled on inspiration as strong as I've ever known!
Here's what happened: I went to the library, just expecting to learn a little more about our local history in order to be a better conversationalist around the dinner table. Since the history of our city is a common topic, I figured this would be important as we continued to settle into this new, wonderful home of ours.
That's when I stumbled across a piece of history that I thought I'd just failed to hear about. When I went the museum to see if I could figure out how I'd overlooked it, I discovered that it was not there.
Well, I'd already decided that I wanted to write about this. I'd been researching and writing about it for weeks, always thinking of kids, since I felt the message was what we need to be instilling in elementary kids these days, with all the violence we are seeing. So I'm writing a book for 5th graders--fiction this time.
Title "Just Following Orders." Does that remind you of anything you've ever experienced? Something like collusion? Chances are, if you are reading this blog, you are saying "YES!"
In the meantime, just know that the story is about how children survive war and about the problem with revenge that keeps feeding wars. As it turns out, we're going to be seeing it in the museum here within a few weeks--not from anything I've done, but because the curator, also a newcomer, has discovered the need.
More soon.
