organizing OGH

[dicknaegele]

I am so very happy to see Fiona ready to work on the OGH story again Dave. I check here everytime I come to your website. Fiona, I am sorry you have been ill my friend. I didn't pick up on that on your Facebook page. Hope you are doing better.

When you start working on the OGH thread again, please keep us posted of the updates at Clipper's Corner. I am sure that for newer members that were not around when the Olbiston story first was conceived on that forum, there would be significant interest in reading it.

Dave, I hope the move goes well, and that you don't exhaust yourselves with the stresses of moving and unpacking. It is a terrible ordeal at our age, haha. At least you won't have to pack the snowshovels.

I will be sorry to see you drop the lunarticks, but I will be more than happy if you all pick up the OGH story again. I love it, and always read every new addition eagerly.

Thank you for the efforts that you put into your writing. You are both very talented and entertaining. Be well, and I will look forward to the renewed activity at the OGH story thread.

[keith]

Hey, Fiona. I've been away from this thread for awhile as well, sometimes life seems to be a bit much. It seems too late to send a "Get Well Soon" Youtube so I'll reserve that for another time.

One suggestion on a problem you raised earlier: I've seen the problem of disclosing unknowable information when writing in the first person resolved by setting the work as a flashback.

[fiona]

Right you are Keith and I start the story as a flashback, on the train, with John, Sarah and Mary. I guess that what I am saying is (are) thiis: I have been working on this project for about ten years. In the beginning it was only me doing all the reserch, then I bought a laptop and "met" Dave, John, Clipper and we all worked on the research. By last year there was so much of it - Genesee Flats, Olbiston, Kanatena, on and on, I had to get away from it. It is pretty much spread between More stories and Clippers Corner and, as Dave has said, there is too much of it too spread out. Plus there are the photographs, and the story line on Dave's website. Add to this my lecture series on the subject and my work with the Conkling House and this was becoming my life. I had to move on to another obsession. You know how it is. I am painting now for another spring show and this dominates my time. I have the ideas for the story line in my head and went to Yale to do the final reserch on John Wood. But I find I can't write just now. I just want to do this reserch when I finish the paintings. I have been working on this new show for a whole year now. It's all I can do. I suggested to dave that we each take a portion of the Yale info and go at it, see what we can turn up. Thanks.