Deborah Woehr

God's Last Twilight, by Deborah Woehr

I came up with this story when I was trying to understand the character of Bud Nettleton and the ghosts of Prosperity. Bud is the town outcast who holds the secrets of Prosperity’s past. His mother, Myra, had an obsession with the minister of the town during that time. Her diaries and scrapbooks chronicle her obsession and her role in the lynching of an innocent family shortly after the 1918 Influenza Pandemic broke out.

This story was written two years ago on a blog for the NaNoWri (National Novel Writer’s Month) contest. At one point, I started editing the manuscript based on the flash story I had written last June. Unfortunately, the file I had with the edits got corrupted and I lost everything. So, I decided to publish the original while I was writing for the Lulu blog. I ordered the first proof last night.

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2 Responses to “God’s Last Twilight: My First Blook”

Cheryl Hagedorn on 20 Jul 2007 at 1:15 pm #

Congrats on the first blook. I’m not sure that I understand, though. It was on a blog, then somehow not on a blog (or perhaps on a blog AND downloaded to your computer)? The reason for my asking is that my blog is devoted to blooks. I’d love to include yours, but would really like the nitty gritty of how a blog became a blook.

I’m also curious because I have friends who have done the nanowrimo thing - did you write on your computer first, then post to the blog? One author who contacted me recently about her blook confessed that she polished everything before posting. I, on the other hand, … well, you know how it is. I’d love to hear from you.

deborah.woehr on 20 Jul 2007 at 2:07 pm #

Thanks, Cheryl. Yes, I had posted it on a Blogger blog, which I took down after the contest ended. I wrote the posts on my computer in raw, unedited format so I could watch the wordcount both for post length and the NaNo goal. Then I uploaded them. I didn’t make the goal, but I had a couple of readers who wanted to know the ending.