Writer Juice

Here are some of the photographs inspiring the rewrite of the last
100 pages of my novel. I needed courage and found it here.

My character Kashess and her baby Frank Tootabba Durham.

The brush tepee she builds near the old sod-roofed hut at the ranch.

The sacred Raft River Mountains where the novel ends.

The sacred white-faced ibis of Northern Utah.

And proving the vitality of black life in the white West,
Frank Durham's son rides rodeo in Pocatello, Idaho in the 1930s.

Of course, these historical photos are not actually my characters. But I love the juice they inject in my soul! I needed to let go of the final sleepy 100 pages of my manuscript and start anew. These photographs gave me the courage to do it.By Christmas, I'll have a novel worthy of its Utah roots.

Thanks to the Columbia River Basin project for photos of the buckaroo Tracy Thompson.