Report for Saturday - Midday

 I finished a long post on writing rules that will come online on May 10.

Lunched on spaghetti. 

I have yet to answer the question: when are you going outside?

Looking at the following right now:

• Erik Rebain On Nathan Leopold, 99 Years After His Infamous Crime (I did not know Leopold lived after prison.
• The ‘Bogus Priest’ and the Murdered President has more intriguing headline than story, which is more amusing in tying Garfield to a conman.

The Web Writer Spotlight has too much material for me to dive into now, and too much that might be of interest to someone reading here. So, there is the link.

Want to support local farmers? Indiana locavores arise! Column: Where’s the beef? Down on the farm:

Indiana may be known to be a pork producing state, but there is quite a bit of great beef to be found in the Crossroads of America. Look no farther than Howell Farms in Middletown in rural Delaware County.

The Howell family has been farming the amber waves of grain for nearly 50 years. Their primary focus is corn, soy, wheat, barley and tomatoes, and now with a touch of beef!

Siblings Adam and Aaron Howell took up the family mantle to become the second generation in the Howell family to farm the Indiana countryside. The brothers are also the driving force behind the farm’s relatively new grass-fed beef program.

“We want to be good stewards of the family business and the land that it is based on,” Adam said. “By combining vegetable and grain production, cover cropping and then rotational livestock grazing, we can improve soil health.”

Ultimately, soil health drives the quality of the products they produce.

At present, the Howells have 22 head of cattle that rotate across different pastures each day. The cattle is 100 percent grass-fed and the beef is processed under USDA inspection. Customers can shop their assortment of beef products online at Farmersprovisions.com. The website provides all the current offerings as well as plenty of information about the Howell family, the farm and the beef operation.

The farm's website is here.

Salmon from Albany, Indiana? That salmon on your plate? It could be from Indiana

And I got this news:

Our sales channels have asked us not to send certain material to them. Draft2Digital's automated content review has detected some of this declined material in your book, Masque Of The Red Death. As a result, we cannot send this book to the following sales channels:

And then I deleted the mailer I created last night. My temper still exists. 

Back to the salt mine.

1:15 pm

  The first draft is always the hardest (and why you shouldn’t fear starting over)

Camille Guthrie on Writing Fiction 

Szilvia Molnar’s Writing Process Is Painful

Jane Roper on Learning How to Have Fun While Writing Fiction 

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