Synopsis As A Selling Tool

At long last, I wrote a 1200 word synopsis for Promiscuous Mode. Just have the final edits to do, and what do I get but an agent wanting 20-30 pages and a synopsis? Great! The writing of it wasn't so bad. Plant butt on chair, mostly, and stop surfing the web.

One of the books I'm currently reading is about an early visit to Georgia with James Oglethorpe by his secretary. Original sources are so interesting, and this man is a good writer. Slavery was banned in the early days of the colony. Bet you didn't know that. These people who settled these shores were so intrepid and resourceful that I can't dampen my admiration. Smart, too. They figured out how to do everything. Palmetto huts were used for the earliest shelters, and they were waterproof. How cool is that? There was trouble getting the biggest ships into the channels leading to the Sea Islands, and they figured that out, too. People supported each other. Those must have been heady days.

I can't help but wonder if the people who play computer games and plant butt on sofa would be up to tree felling trees, making posts, planting and stockade building. One hopes everyone would rise to the occasion. The folks who go to Burning Man would have to trouble, for they are an endlessly resourceful bunch. Like wily Ulysses.

Today we visited the Kennedy library, a most impressive building and exhibits. It was so appalling to see the replays of first desegregation of schools in the south, with George Wallace in full dudgeon. One shudders in shame and hopes those days are gone forever. The library is right on the waterfront and there's a great walk around the harbor. Plenty of ducks out today.
I like to watch ducks. There's always good squabbles and bad blood. In duck.

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