Norwegian Basket of Goodies

Happiest of Easters to those of you who celebrate, religiously or secularly!

I lost yesterday's work in revision, due to sloppy saving on my part, so yesterday was doing that again, and moving a bit forward. Today was all new. I thought that this would be a nice bit to share. Grant and his brother David are saving a kid on the bus from bullies.

Grant knew what they saw wasn’t a gray troll with wings and a midnight blue troll about seven feet tall. Their grandparents probably would. But what the boys did see were the two Heierdahl brothers. The rumor was that they bench pressed bulls on a regular basis. Gunnhild also had the reputation of being an amazon, and had been teased about it in elementary school. Exactly once.

Revised one scene, added a new scene.

12128 / 90000 words. 13% done!

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I didn't post yesterday because Bryon bought a new Mac, and he's been setting it up and reloading data. Today, I was able to play with the galleries again. Here's today's post about the modifications in America to the Norwegian home, and Norwegian furniture wood work in general.

You might remember that I mentioned how the Norwegian home was bright and painted, and generally had intricate woodwork. Norwegian immigrants translated their bright painting into intricate wood working entirely. New designs found different colors of wood inlaid with each other, and works of arts graced the homes. In future entries, I'll go into further depth with some of this wood working, as well as the transformation of rosemaling in the new country.

The gallery here shows you some of the intricacy of the work.

Originally published at Writer Tamago. You can comment here or there.

Short Stories Out Again

Short story submissions:

Jackal's First Hunt to A Fly in Amber.

Mark Twain's Daughter to Shimmer.

Also, something cool that I didn't know about before:

Duotrope Digest, a poetry and fiction search engine. It's pretty spiffy.

Originally published at Writer Tamago. You can comment here or there.