No end to grief

Searching for an ending to Dubious Grief - when still locked in the process of grieving. Trying to end the memoir while I know my grieving is not done. How to accomplish this perplexes me - my mind noodles through many possibilities. My promise to readers - ending the book on a hopeful note - is difficult to fulfill when my grieving journey continues. Drafting many versions of the "final chapter" only leads to more confusion. Perhaps as the title suggests, grieving is dubious - uncertain - never ending. I continue to write, write, write searching for the end. Selfishly I need to let this grief go.

Inspiration from Ray Bradbury

Thursday was the final novel writing class for the term. I look forward to writing but will miss the feedback from workshopping my words. My most pressing writing remains the nonfiction book proposal for the Willamette Writers conference the first weekend in August. Other summer projects include writing and revising short stories I began last summer. Inspired by Ray Bradbury's challenge to write every day, I will honor his memory as I write, write, write throughout the summer.

Writing fiction keeps me moving along...

Writing scenes and story-boarding a new novel keeps my creative juices flowing while I write and revise my nonfiction book proposal. Playing with new story ideas keeps me writing, especially because my new novel has lots of humor. After over a year dealing with Dubious Grief it is great to laugh while I write (instead of weeping). Thanks to all my novel writing classmates for suggesting ways to improve the new story and keeping the laughs coming.