Welcome!

Welcome to my new blog page – Wordcrafter.  While the work I am doing at Roots & Branches is extremely valuable, I realized recently that my writing needs a platform.  I decided to build Wordcrafter as a blog to showcase my writing.  I will be posting fiction and non-fiction, and also some thoughts about writing three days a week. This will also be the place where you can keep tabs on my projects -- the Camp NaNoWriMo in July and National Novel Writing Month in November – as well as my novel in progress.

I have a word count goal of 30,000 words for May.  Much of that will be research for the novel – I have to get my MC from Boston to points west, and I don’t know the exact point or points west!  I’m doing a great deal of reading about the American frontier in the 1880’s.  Some is dreadful – the planned eradication of the buffalo by the U.S. Army to bring the Native Americans to the reservations by destroying their food supply, for example.  Some of the other bits are fascinating – the fact that the Railroad companies went to Germany and Sweden and Norway and recruited folks to come and live near the proposed route of their tracks by giving them money and reduced rates on travel.

I hope you enjoy this new venture. 

You can find me on Facebook on my personal page: 
https://www.facebook.com/cedarwolfsinger?fref=ts

And my company page:
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I am also on Twitter:

@michelle owings-chri

LinkedIn profile:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-owings-christian-bbb7278

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