Lane von Herzen: Emails for OIG Hotline

My Third Novel's Conclusion, My Heartbreak

My heart begins to break when I think about completing this particular book -- because this narrative has sustained me like no other story I've known. It's both more personal and more universal than my other works. But beyond memory and archetype, it's a cri-de-coeur about needing to become the person one is destined to be. And in the writing, I have met my own life's work, my own fated journey -- having the sense all the while that the pages are suffused with a resonance, an energy, an electrified field that defies explanation. Writers hope and pray to be overtaken by a work in this way -- to be conscripted into passionate service of a profound story. To experience it even once in a lifetime seems a great privilege. I still have several months before this novel is complete, and this constitutes my reprieve. Because I'm not ready for the beauty to end.

Monday, September 18, 2023

Emails for OIG Hotline

OIG Hotline, please see an important email to your attention within my email lanemacwilliams@gmail.com, with copies sent to lmacwilliams77419@gmail.com and lmacwilliams7417@gmail.com, with a date/time stamp of today, September 18, 2023 at 7:24 PM and a subject heading as follows: ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Declining Health of Graham MacWilliams -- to be notarized.

In addition, please see a follow-on email sent today at 7:43 PM, with a subject heading of ATTN: OIG HOTLINE and no further descriptor.

Thank you for your kind attention to this matter.