Today is the day when I have caught up with my editing of PART TWO of this diary. Meaning that, when Gwylène asked me to choose one section of it to be integrate in “YOU COMIN’ TOO”, I accepted. But I needed to edit it first.

Now, I know that editing takes much longer than writing! As one or, I suspect, many writers have repeated: you are not a writer until you have edited and still edit over and over … Until you (or your editor!) decide that the work is done. In the case of this diary, I started editing it after my operation, in June 2021. I very quickly was discouraged by the quality of the writing. It was awful! Then, Gwylène told me that she had started to edit it as well, but in a different way. She was adding a right column to each page for remarks and corrections concerning the left column, which showed the original text.

She went on for three hundred pages, she said! This shamed me ! If she had made such an effort, I had to do at least as much. So I picked up where she left off. I restarted editing at page 300! It proved just as painful as before but I went on to page 450, if I remember. After all, I was still too tired and weak to do much studio work. But, at that point – page 450 – I was fed up with it. No more editing then. For the last six or eight months. Until a month ago or so, when I started editing again, with the first 40 pages of Part Two! And here I am! I chose to skip the five and some hundred pages left to edit of Part One! I may never get there. I may never be a writer after all!

But I am determined to see the Tale for Reparations to its end.

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Recommendations for choosing an artist in residence.

Victoria and Markus are writing an How-To page about TINYisPOWERFUL selecting artists in residence. Markus shows his experience in activism! He already makes a difference, with his practical sense of urgency.

I talked about it with Gwylene. She proposed some additions to his list.

Artist in residence should

• be able to talk about their work
• have a mentor/tutor/ within the TiP membership until they are secure
• be able to speak about collaboration – activism – art in/with community