Lynda Twardowski
I'm Lynda Twardowski, the current writer at the Kerouac House.
I wanted to post a bit of what I'm working on the site. I've been stewing and stewing about what part to send (writer's nerves and first novels don't mix well, ha ha) and finally have just given up on selecting a mid-book section and decided to send you the first few pages. After much thought, I figured characters and situations might not make much sense otherwise.
An excerpt from my novel-in-progress
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006Etta Bucworth never was one for tact. Since the time I was just an a.m. kindergartener sitting behind my momma’s register in the afternoons, I could tell. About once a month Etta would storm in the Pik-Quick’s giant double-glass doors and sweep up and down the aisles yanking the shelves clean of cookies, dish soap, home permanents – anything her skinny arms could hold – then she’d saunter on up to the checkout and dump the …