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Excerpt
Jason saw the teacher again, saw her long-fingered, supple hands turning out, leading her arms out into a wider embrace, to gather the anorexic girl in towards the group. On the teacher's face, an expression he hadn't otherwise seen: a flicker of concern, perhaps, of worry or dismayed affection briefly furrowing her brow, tucking down the corners of her mouth. But then, when the girl looked up at her, the teacher smiled at her in welcome, eyes lit: brightest welcome. And then the group moved away along the sidewalk and vanished, one by one and two by three, into sunlight.
from an unpublished short story
Bio
Ron Drummond’s goal in life is to share his enthusiasms with as many people as possible. Among these are: excavating forgotten music and forgotten lives; creating deluxe editions of works by his favorite writers; cultivating the arts of lectio divina; learning how to better care for himself and others; discovering how we might transform the human race into a benevolent, life-affirming species and save the earth to boot; exploring and promoting the whys and wherefores of the human push into outer space. Under those umbrellas can be found his love for Taoism, Biblical studies, Shakespeare studies, classical music history, constitutional reform, extraterrestrial oceans, Sabbath economics, and Thai food. Ron attended Clarion West in 1987; his published writings reflect his diverse interests. He has also published books by Samuel R. Delany and John Crowley, and nears completion of a new edition of Little, Big. He’s put a hundred thousand miles on his thumb, wintered at a Taoist monastery in the Colorado Rockies, spent a year caretaking the high California desert land of a Native American medicine man, heard the sound of surf crashing in the air above a landlocked valley on the Isle of Skye, and currently lives on the banks of the Hudson River a block north of the house where Herman Melville wrote Typee and Omoo.
Publications
Writing Description
I love the musicality of language; every word makes a sound in the reader’s mind, and when woven together artfully words can create music. The trick of course is figuring out how to do that while enriching meaning, or at the very least without sacrificing it. I also love the painterly qualities of fine writing, how it can evoke images and set them at play, and how a single well-placed word can suddenly transform an image into something new and startling. I am in awe at how some writers can body forth a character entire with just a few deft strokes, a living, breathing enigma. These are a few of the things I love to experience as a reader, and strive to create as a writer. In the Beginning was the Story.
Goals
My goal is to write a minimum of 250 words a day seven days a week for the duration of the write-a-thon. Each day those words will be part of one or more of the following writing projects:
1) A new translation of the Gospel of Mark;
2) A manifesto for the human exploration and settlement of outer space, working title: “Rituals for a Martian Revolution”;
3) A science fiction novella, currently in progress;
4) Another fiction project.
I will only count words written on these four projects towards the daily goal.
