March Progress Report

Slow on other fronts, March was a bit of a lion on the "literary" scene, and I enjoyed several potent writing sessions sitting outside the door of my daughter's Saturday morning music class. The focus of much of this has been developing the story arcs and character development of my "parking novel," although it's not to be confused with my earlier "parking novel" that some people saw circulating in early drafts halfway through the 1990s. This one's different, with the parking as an ongoing criminal empire threatening to take over the city and an integral backdrop to the relationship between the two main characters.

I've also started some preliminary work on a non-fiction project related to the educational writing of J. Lloyd Trump, a mid-twentieth educator whose ideas helped shape Calgary's own Bishop Carroll High School. His book A School For Everyone is surprisingly relevant.

Short Stories:
"Of Light and Darkness" - in revision*
* this is part of my Twilight of the Idle short story series along with"Labellypock", "A Night on the Fronde" and "Out of Time (Ped Xing)"
"How My Uncle Faught The Spanish Civil War" - 1000 words
"Il Brute" - 700 words, a short story about living in Bridgeland

Novel Ideas (and working titles):
A Saturday Afternoon By The Slurpee Machine - 4715 words, growing up in NE Calgary, circa 1990
Games of Chance - 17445 words, quasi-related to the current economic downturn
The Last Days of the Daily Wenzel - 8154 words
Father Borsato di Sangi - notes only, about a priest in small town Alberta, circa 1910, - 127 words
Mt. Pilatus Calls My Name - notes only, a corporate satire- 3111 words

Sisyphus In Hell/I Was Misinformed - 2402 words

Good Ideas At The Time (Whole draft novels):
joculatores domini - in revision, a novel about parking attendants and the Calgary Stampede
The Liminal Trip - in revision, backpacking through Europe,

Trump Project: 971 words

March's Total Word Count: 36925