Lane von Herzen: New Email for the OIG Hotline, November 15, 2024 at 9:37 AM

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.

Friday, November 15, 2024

New Email for the OIG Hotline, November 15, 2024 at 9:37 AM

OIG Hotline, please see an important new communication for your Office within lanemacwilliams@gmail.com, bearing the subject heading ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Fwd: If You Are Coughing At Home, sent at 9:36 AM today, November 15, 2024.

Thank you for accessing this communication at your earliest possible opportunity.

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