Off to my Reading in Bellevue, decorative gourd season, and finally finishing my first draft
- At October 04, 2015
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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It’s a beautiful 72 degree sunny day here and I’m off my afternoon poetry reading (3 PM) at the very gracious and welcoming East side locale of the University of Washington Bookstore, in Bellevue! It’s a great place to browse and get a cup of coffee, besides poetry readings. I hope some people show up!
I’ve been a little under the weather this last week, a little cough-and-cold, and the bad news was so depressing – so in between house-hunting (no luck so far) – Glenn drove me out to the Dr. Maze farm, complete with blooming sunflowers, pumpkin patch, and yes, decorative gourds! Usually we miss out on the fun of fall, because it turns cold and drizzly right at the end of September, but this year, we’ve had a stretch of sunny days, and it just makes you appreciate – the mountains, the still-blooming dahlias, sunflowers, even roses, the turning colors of the deciduous trees (usually a storm knocks down the leaves right away.) So even before Thanksgiving, I’m trying to practice being grateful for small beauties.
In other news, I’ve gotten up to 110 pages on my PR for Poets book, and am officially sending it off to my editors! It’s not completely done – I’m still waiting for some quotes and edits on quotes, for instance – but wow! Just a little while ago I only had twenty pages, so this felt like an accomplishment.
The rest of October, I have a book club visit on Bainbridge, and Lit Crawl, and hopefully at least one meeting with my poetry group, so it’ll be a poetry-filled month. Then I will go dormant – maybe do some reading and writing, work on my fifth poetry manuscript some more, and – hopefully – finally find a house to live in!
Yvonne Higgins Leach
Congrats on getting your manuscript off to your editors…big accomplishment!