Author Archives: Drema Drudge

Dear Reader, Someone at the café called me Drama today. He was kidding, and he does that sometimes. But I happened to be wearing llama earrings, so naturally I said something about llama drama, and for a few seconds this seemed like a perfectly reasonable use of everyone’s time. I stand by it. Then someoneContinue reading “Wistful in Indiana”

Dear Reader, Yesterday, I didn’t want to do anything on the writing front. This was particularly annoying because physically I am feeling better. Mentally, however, I feel a bit as if my brain had been packed in shipping peanuts. This wasn’t exactly writer’s block, which wouldn’t have mattered because I invented tricks long ago toContinue reading “I Can’t Speak for the Prose”

Dear Reader, September is just being rude to me and Word Raccoon. What with the arthritis medication side effects, which apparently include feeling meh about writing (since when??), making our Coke Zeroes hype us up WAY TOO MUCH, and not really being able to settle down to do anything, well, my friend, it’s not lookingContinue reading “Not Always Sunny in September”

Dear Reader, As Word Raccoon and I were working on a different blog post this morning, I was stopped by something in the distance. It looked like an incredible sweep and funnel of greenish butterflies. And I wondered, do I know of any butterflies of that hue? But then I looked closer, and I couldContinue reading “The Earth is a Hive”

Dear Reader, I did not expect Amor Towles to be wearing skinny jeans. I don’t know what I expected Amor Towles to be wearing, but it wasn’t those. Word Raccoon and I were watching a conversation between Towles and Ann Patchett on YouTube, and while I was completely absorbed by what Patchett was saying, someContinue reading “Amor Towles in Skinny Jeans”

Dear Reader, I’ve mentioned verticals before, and here we are again. Word Raccoon and I want to do more research into those microdramas that take the heat and drama and turn them up to eleven in very short videos, often only a minute or two long per episode. Or, in our case, if we endContinue reading “Verticals or MicroDremas™?”

Dear Reader, I mentioned yesterday refilling the well after having dipped so deeply from it lately. And guess what I decided was ideal to do the refilling with? Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World. It’s everywhere right now, and when I saw it on YouTube today, I knew that today was theContinue reading “Attention is the Beginning of Devotion”

Dear Reader, This has been a fussy bunny morning. Word Raccoon is clearing her throat. Sorry, fussy Word Raccoon morning, I guess! I woke up at 4:30, couldn’t get back to sleep, and decided to read more of a short translated-from-French novel that I’ve been reading snippets of over the past three days. Initially, IContinue reading “Flattened Grass”

Dear Reader, Here are the official achievements of “All Novel, All August” (and a bit on Sept. 1). I’ve tried not to add any spoilers which is kinda a pain and a bit dry, sorry. Give me a little more time and I can give you more of the flow of the story. Probably. JustContinue reading “All Novel, All August: The Receipts”

Dear Reader, Does a day even seem like a day if the sun plays keepaway? Ah, but there are days that make their own sun with little unexpected rays of delight. Word Raccoon and I like those days very much. Thanks, Monday.  Today, I did something dumb with my novel. I want to blame WR,Continue reading “I Accidentally Wrote the End”