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Posted More of My Novel:  The Harvest

5/5/2017

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I haven't posted more of the draft in a while, so here you go:  The Harvest.  (Also, it's a bit of a celebration post!)

When I wrote the last six pages, I was bickering with my husband and typing very angrily (yeah, who writes and fights at the same time, right?), but I outlined the scene more or less how I had pictured it in my head, over a number of weeks.  The novel picks up on the similar plot line to the two previous versions of this novel, centering on a female doctor who is defying the system. 

However, her point of view is not the main one, and she is not a main character anymore, but an important side character that will help Alan along his revolutionary path, maybe even more so than the revolutionaries he has already encountered.  

On a celebratory note, I realized I crossed 100 pages of the novel!  Yay!  I am not sure how long it will be, but at the rate it's going, it will cross 300 pages. 

Well, I'm off to write more.  If my baby, my daughter, doesn't wake up, I will post it before I crash (as it is 3a.m.) or get distracted by my kids. 

Do what you love today.  That's what I'm doing instead of dieting.  Ha ha ha.  #Resist

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    María J. Estrada
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    MARIA J. ESTRADA is an English college professor of Composition, Literature, and her favorite, Creative Writing. She grew up in the desert outside of Yuma, Arizona in the real Barrio de Los Locos, a barrio comprised of new Mexican immigrants and first-generation Chicanos. Drawing from this setting and experiences, she writes like a loca every minute she can—all while magically balancing her work and family obligations. She lives in Chicago’s south side with her wonderfully supportive husband, two remarkable children, and a menagerie of animals.

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