Dreams aren’t always so easy to manage. Neither is being awake.
#OnTheForest #Waldeinsamkeit #Chapter2
https://pamportland.org/2024/05/04/amid-the-lodgepoles-part-18/

@Emmacox
Same! All of the four parental units had passed in my #OnTheForest series because I needed my MCs to lean into each other 100%. Having parents be estranged or even just silently out of the picture left too many loose ends.

Sometimes ya’ gotta do what ya’ gotta do.
#WritersCoffeeClub

Natalie.
Stewing.
That was it.
#OnTheForest #Waldeinsamkeit #Chapter2
https://pamportland.org/2024/04/27/amid-the-lodgepoles-part-17/

@csmaccath This!

All of my novels take place #OnTheForest and the cover art features pictures from my favorite forest.

“Look at that son of a bitch run!”
#OnTheForest #Waldeinsamkeit #Chapter2
https://pamportland.org/2024/04/20/amid-the-lodgepoles-part-16/

Daniel finally turns his mind forward while enjoying the solitude of the forest.
#OnTheForest #Waldeinsamkeit #Chapter2
https://pamportland.org/2024/04/13/amid-the-lodgepoles-part-15/

Novels #OnTheForest backlog
All my writing except my blog.
One day I’ll pen all the others,
Just ask the #TimeTravelAuthors.
On social I awkwardly flub
My way through #WritersCoffeeClub.
Not sure I’ll ever be a success;
Here I’m just a 🐳 of a mess.

#NationalPoetryMonth #7April

The squad ships out on their first deployment.
#OnTheForest #Waldeinsamkeit #Chapter2
https://pamportland.org/2024/04/06/amid-the-lodgepoles-part-14/

#WritersCoffeeClub #31March Do you work from premise to world or world to premise?

It varies.

In my #OnTheForest series, it is absolutely world to premise. I was immersed in the Big Horn Mountains even before I began writing about them.

In my #AlongTheRiver adventure (of #TimeTravelAuthors fame), the premise absolutely created the world.

Oooo! Someone’s smitten!
#OnTheForest #Waldeinsamkeit #Chapter2
https://pamportland.org/2024/03/30/amid-the-lodgepoles-part-13/

#Chapter2 begins this week; wander into the forest and read for free on my website
#OnTheForest #Waldeinsamkeit
https://pamportland.org/2024/03/23/amid-the-lodgepoles-part-12/

#WritersCoffeeClub #21Mar Do you ever regret killing a character, or the manner of their death?

I waffled for years about whether or not to kill off a character in my WIP. Once I finally started putting together the story outline, I realized it made sense in the context of the story and so it came to pass.

I also reference the death of five others over the course of my final #OnTheForest novel.

1/2

Find out what Daniel got in the divorce as #Chapter1 concludes
#OnTheForest #Waldeinsamkeit
https://pamportland.org/2024/03/16/holding-hands-part-11/

#WritersCoffeeClub #9Mar 
Do you invent places in your work? Are any based on real locations?

My locations for my four novels are quite real. Sometimes I change names, esp. for businesses. The specific plot of land my MC owns is fictitious, but otherwise the scenes and settings are all quite real, and likewise served as inspiration for the #OnTheForest series.

Come explore my view of the Bighorn National Forest and the open beauty of the Wyoming mountains: https://pamportland.org/ontheforest/

Daniel says goodbye to a new friend
#OnTheForest #Waldeinsamkeit #Chapter1
https://pamportland.org/2024/03/09/holding-hands-part-10/

#WritersCoffeeClub #7Mar Describe an action moment you're most proud of. Share an excerpt.

In an upcoming scene from "Waldeinsamkeit", my MMC offers a kiss before dying to his brother in arms.

#OnTheForest

#WritersCoffeeClub #3Mar 
How much of your worlds are invented versus real? Give examples.

All of my #OnTheForest novels take place on the Bighorn National Forest, a beautifully real place in north central Wyoming. Readers can see all the places, drive all the roads, hike all the trails in my stories or IRL and have the same experience of nature.

The only exception is the piece of land my MMC owns just outside the forest. It is an amalgamation of the region, but the roads around it are real.

Daniel contemplates the benefits of being alone in the forest – and elsewhere.
#OnTheForest #Waldeinsamkeit #Chapter1
https://pamportland.org/2024/03/02/holding-hands-part-9/

#WritersCoffeeClub #1March What inspired you to begin writing?

I began my blog in 2011 after visiting 49/50 states and decided to share short, playful, random nuggets of my many adventures on my way to my 50th. (https://pamportland.org/2011/10/27/on-the-advice-of-friends/)

I wrote my first novel in 12 days after spending 8 weeks working #OnTheForest in Wyoming. It broke me open and changed my pace of life. (https://pamportland.org/ontheforest/)

As #Chapter1 of #Waldeinsamkeit continues, Daniel encounters an older version of himself.
#OnTheForest

https://pamportland.org/2024/02/24/holding-hands-part-8/