A house in Quebec
I've taken to writing about our house in Quebec as a cottage, which fits it. But the narrative of how we serenditipously found and bought our house in Quebec, well, "house" seems like a better term at the moment.
It's a 1910 parish schoolhouse renovated twice (and perhaps a bit more) to be a house, after it was no longer a schoolhouse (back in the 1960's). The owner before us did extensive renovations, creating a magical place filled with Quebecois vintage pine pieces.
As I've written about the story and our experiences there over two summers and two winters, I wrote a lot of posts.
I've extracted them now into Word documents, have put them into normal paragraph form, rather the space delineated paragraphs that I use in blog posts and have made a first editing pass as I did so.
I printed them all out a couple of days ago and was surprised by the size of the stack. And I'm revisiting my old editing/markup skills, not needed in my post-paid work life. Interesting, but encouraging.
Progress.
My intention is simply to have a print-book version via Blurb and an e-book version of some sort, including photographs, drawings, and paintings.
I'll see what unfolds.
What a terrific way to revisit your wonderful story.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to re-read posts, even as it's "work" to revise the text to past-tense, rather than present, and start the first pass of revising text. Fortunately, I normally try to craft decent prose in blog posts, so it's all around continuing to pare down the narrative!
DeleteA great project , Lisa.
ReplyDeleteIt's been nice to finally return to it -- I had extracted most of the posts last spring, but found it a bit too poignant to revisit until now. Thanks for the encouragement!
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