Chapter 11

 

Welcome to the second half of the book! As we enter into the next phase of this journey, I want to once again thank you for being a part of this project with me. At the end of the chapters, I will be posting a full review of the chapter links so you can listen and enjoy.

Given the chaos of my personal life this week, I was not able to share a blog post about chapter 10. So, as a special bonus to you, I will be sharing 2 blog posts this week about chapter 10, and chapter 11. These are going to be a bit of insight into the craziness of my travel experiences, so I highly recommend you read them. 

I hope you enjoy listening to chapter 11 of The Wicket of Silvus.

Chapter 10

 

We're half way!

Thank you for your patience as I worked on Chapter 10. 

I am happy to share the next chapter today with you as the group begins their journey! I look forward to sharing the next blog with you as well since the background of many of these stories are, hilariously, true.

Now that we are half way, I thought I'd put a question out there. Currently my videos are unlisted on YouTube so that only the people who have the link are able to access the videos. In your opinion, should this be made public? And if so, why?

Combat Training

 

In the history of writing blog posts to correspond with chapters in my book, I have done my best not to talk about the chapter itself, but more the feeling around the chapter or anecdotes about the info in the chapter. Clearly we don't want any spoilers. 

This time I want to discuss the writing of chapter 9. When I reached the end of writing this book, The Wicket of Silvus, I had 19 chapters. If you know me at all, I cringe at awkward or uncomfortable numbers, such as 19. It needed an additional chapter. I tried to think of what to add, but I felt I had concluded the book so nicely that I didn't want to tack on a random chapter. 

And so Chapter 9 was born. Yes, you heard that right, I added a chapter directly in the middle of my book because I couldn't handle an odd number of chapters. Yet somehow it actually fits! Reading it through a hundred times, it still felt cohesive in the book and added depth of character that may have been missing. 

It was my puzzle box of the book. How to fit one more chapter in without messing up what was already complete. And it worked...I think. Let me know what you think? Did you notice it was an "add-on"?

Chapter 9

It's time for another chapter of The Wicket of Silvus! Even if you aren't listening to the entire book, I strongly encourage you to watch the first 25 seconds of this video if you like silly dogs. 

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We've reached the point of the book where there are no corresponding blog posts! So keep an eye out...they're coming. 

Chapter 8

 

As we work our way through the chapters of The Wicket of Silvus, feel free to post your favourite characters or ask questions. I love to hear feedback.

Chapter 8

Also, check out the corresponding blog post for this chapter here. 

This is the last of the blog posts I wrote prior to this new adventure of recording. From here on in, I will be writing alongside the recordings. I will also be going back into previous recorded posts to put the links to their corresponding blogs. Hopefully that helps bring clarity to the connection between the chapter and the posts.

Chapter 7

When recording the videos for this audio series, I admit that I can't listen to myself. I skim-listen in order to edit and add pictures, but for the most part I don't like the sound of my voice. However, as I was watching parts of this video, I had to laugh because Ginger is in the background being a complete goofy pupper. She starts off insisting on being pet while I'm reading, which I can't say no to because she is normally an aloof dog, and then eventually goes into the background where she tries nesting and then licks her paws incessantly. We're still working on the licking thing.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the background goofiness as you read Chapter 7 of The Wicket of Silvus.

Chapter 7

Also, if you would like to see the posting connected to this chapter, click here.

Happy listening!

Chapter 6

 

Already at chapter 6! 

Thank you for listening to my book. I appreciate everyone who listens and likes my readings. In case you haven't connected the previous corresponding posts to the current chapter readings, you can easily do so by going back into the blog post history. For example, the post for chapter 6 can be found HERE!

I hope you enjoy this reading of chapter 6 and I hope you enjoy Ginger's ridiculous antics in the background.

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