ohio – Orangette https://orangette.net Thu, 24 Dec 2015 22:26:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 Dear World, https://orangette.net/2012/02/dear-world/ https://orangette.net/2012/02/dear-world/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:55:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/dear-world I am writing to you, once again, from my friend Ben’s dining room. When I was here last August, writing my brains out, I had a hunch that a return visit might be helpful before my manuscript deadline. Turns out, that was correct. In Ohio, there are no Brandons to distract me, no Delanceys to worry about, no Jacks or Alices to bark suddenly at absolutely nothing and, boom, scare the organs out of my body. In Ohio, there is just a Ben and his nearly empty house, and a twin bed under the eaves with my name on it, next to a window onto which the previous tenant’s child stuck two butterfly decals. My first day in town turned out…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2012/02/dear-world/feed/ 138 Ohio https://orangette.net/2011/08/ohio/ https://orangette.net/2011/08/ohio/#comments Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:21:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/ohio I am writing to you today from my friend Ben’s dining room. If you’ve been around for a while, you might remember that he used to live in Seattle, where he was like a Kramer to us, but he moved away for a job. Now he’s in Ohio, and for a week, so am I. I needed to get some work done on Book 2, and I missed my friend, so I rolled the two into one and called it a writing retreat. I wasn’t sure how it would go, but turns out, it’s like summer camp – only there are no counselors to keep us down, and instead of doing archery and riding horses and gathering around the campfire…

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