Lane von Herzen: Important New Communication for the OIG Hotline, December 26, 2024

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.

Thursday, December 26, 2024

Important New Communication for the OIG Hotline, December 26, 2024

OIG Hotline, please be apprised of an important new communication sent to your attention within lanemacwilliams@gmail.com this evening, December 26, 2024 at 5:25 PM. The subject heading reads ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: 29 Questions and Answers, December 26, 2024, Provisional Confidentiality.

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