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Hada’s Fog Chapter Eighteen Part Two

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Hada’s Fog Chapter Eighteen, Part Two is posted.  See menu above.

 

Hada complains about Berkeley weather,  “I took off my coat but maybe I should have left it on. This house is freezing cold. It’s worse than New Jersey. More damp. Soaks into your bones.”

Her granddaughter tries to make Hada comfortable, but the fog’s chill consumes her and increases her annoyance with everything and everyone.

 

 

 

 

Julaina Kleist-Corwin

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Author of Hada’s Fog

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Chapter Fifteen In Hada’s Fog Is Posted

Hada cover youngChapter Fifteen in Hada’s Fog is posted. See the menu above for the book’s page.

 

I did not post Chapter 16 because I’ve made it a short story that I submitted for publication and I don’t want it to be rejected because I posted it here. A quick summary is that Hada shops in a New Jersey jewelry store where her vision is blurred and she guesses it’s due to stress about having to go back to California. On her way to the car, she runs into her best friend. They go to Macy’s Cafe where Hada covers up the problems in Berkeley and lies about being happy to return there. They discuss modern women who have a mind of their own and Hada secretly admires the new independent women. She evaluates her role as a wife. A modern woman wouldn’t  follow Lev  if she didn’t want to leave New Jersey for several weeks.

Hada is determined to return on her own if she decides the chaos with their sons continues to be intolerable. She would take the risk of being judged by her friend and their community by her refusal to stay in California with Lev.

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In Chapter Fifteen, Bira reports to Lev that she had an argument with Samuel. He tells her to move out of the house and leave their daughters with him.

The arc rises in tension involving several characters besides Hada.  This chapter is close to being the halfway point in the book.

 

 

 

Julaina Kleist-Corwin

Editor of Written Across the Genres

Author of soon-to-be-released Hada’s Fog

 

 

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The End of Chapter Thirteen In Hada’s Fog Is Posted

hada cover with youngHada’s Fog, the last half of Chapter Thirteen is posted. See menu above.

Lev and Samuel disagree about Samuel’s involvement with Abe’s son, Jacob. Hada, as always, takes Samuel’s side and thinks he is generous in helping Nissa.

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For Jacob’s sake, who do you think is right?

 

 

Julaina Kleist-Corwin

Editor of Written Across the Genres

Author of Hada’s Fog

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Hada’s Fog Chapter 12, Scene 2 Has Been Posted

 

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I have posted Chapter 12, Scene 2 in Hada’s Fog. See menu above.

Hada’s grandchildren, Esther and Judi, are minor characters yet their actions move the plot along. They appear in previous scenes and in this one for the reader to know their personalities and to care about them in future scenes when they get in trouble.

 

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Hada’s Fog Will Be a Blogged Book

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After reading Nina Amir’s book, How to Blog a Book, I’ve decided to blog Hada’s Fog. A new scene or chapter will be posted three times a week. I’ve wanted the drafts I’ve written to be perfect before letting anyone, besides my critique group, read it, but Amir said some people blog a first or second draft of a novel or non-fiction book.  When the posts are completed, they are put into manuscript form, sent to an independent editor, revised, and then made into an E-book or printed on demand, or whatever way is preferred. Amir states on p. 78, “You want to put your best words forward–up to a point. You don’t want to become a perfectionist or this will deter you from publishing posts frequently.

“Consider your blogged book your first or second draft.” On P. 79, she reassures the writer again, “The blogged version does not have to be perfect, and hopefully you’ll find that fact to be creatively freeing.” Amir gave me confidence that my Hada’s Fog posts could be a draft. She’s right, that fact is creatively freeing. After all the time I’ve spent on the novel, why not blog it?

My webmaster is on vacation, and I have questions in regard to where the novel chapters will be posted. I think Hada’s Fog will need it’s own blog site. Time to Write Now will continue to be various topics about writing, but I also can use it to let readers know when a new scene or chapter has been posted to Hada’s blog.

Amir said she maintained four blogs while she posted How to Blog a Book. She wrote and published her first draft on the internet in five months. She sent her finished, polished final version to her agent who marketed the book. After a few rejections, she sent it to Writer’s Digest Books for the second time. She was eager to get the book out quickly. “I wanted to be first to market with the idea. I told her (the agent) I would self-publish if need be…”   The acquisitions editor and the publisher accepted the book if Amir would agree to write 10,000 more words. Writer’s Digest Books wanted to be first to market the concept too, so she was given a deadline of just eight weeks for the additional word count. She met the due date in spite of a busy time in her life. Her traditionally published book proved that the advice she had written in it for blogging a book “really does work.”

http://howtoblogabook.com/the-book/

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