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MISSING is #122 in the
never-ending series called INSIDE THE
EMOTION OF FICTION where the Chris
Rice Cooper Blog (CRC) focuses on one specific excerpt from a fiction
genre and how that fiction writer wrote that specific excerpt. All INSIDE
THE EMOTION OF FICTION links are at the end of this piece.
Name of fiction work? And were there other names you considered
that you would like to share with us? Girl Gone Missing. Yes,
we had a list of about twenty title choices – most variations of ‘girl’ or
‘missing’. We, my editor Lee Byrd and I, narrowed it down to about 5 and then
another group of folks were consulted about marketability and finally Girl
Gone Missing was the chosen title.
Has this been published? And it is totally fine if the answer is no. If yes, what publisher and what publication date? Girl Gone Missing was published by Cinco Puntos Press, El Paso, Texas in June of 2019.
What is the date you began writing this
piece of fiction and the date when you completely finished the piece of
fiction? I think I started
writing it in November of 2017 and the finished draft was sent to Cinco Puntos
in November of 2018.
Where did you do most of your writing for this fiction work? And please describe in detail. I often write at a computer in my home office; I would not dare post a photo of that mess. I am also honored to be the recipient of friend’s generosity. They allow me to spend two weeks each year at their home on the north shore of Lake Superior.
Where did you do most of your writing for this fiction work? And please describe in detail. I often write at a computer in my home office; I would not dare post a photo of that mess. I am also honored to be the recipient of friend’s generosity. They allow me to spend two weeks each year at their home on the north shore of Lake Superior.
What were your writing habits while
writing this work- did you drink something as you wrote, listen to music, write
in pen and paper, directly on laptop; specific time of day? I write on a computer or my laptop. My writing
habits vary depending on where and when I can get the most work done. Sometimes
that is early morning, sometimes late at night. I have a writing partner with
whom I visit various coffee shops and restaurants around the city. We will
write on our laptops for a couple hours then go our separate ways, often with
little conversation between the two of us. Because I prefer absolute silence
when I write, I get most of my writing done when I am at my writing retreat on
the north shore or go off by myself to someplace where there is limited options
for my family to be in contact with me. (Above Left: Marcie in November 2016)
I tend to eat a lot of popcorn and drink unlimited amounts of
green tea while writing. I also favor Ethiopian food and Mexican tamales while
typing away in restaurants.
Were there any deletions from this excerpt that
you can share with us? And can you please include a photo of your marked up
rough drafts of this excerpt. There were no big deletions. Lee Byrd, editor at Cinco Puntos,
and myself go back and forth via email and word doc during the editing process.
Following is just one email exchange between myself and Lee:
Email from Lee: This isn't altogether clear. First Cash tears
the strips of sheet, then she knots them together, then she measures them, then
she knots them together again? What am I not understanding?
What excerpt of the book was the most emotional for you to write? This excerpt can be as short or as long as you prefer.
Excerpt in this Black Font Below
She went back to the bed
and began tying the sheet strips together. She kept the strips under the sheet,
hidden, in case the other women returned, pulling out just the ends she was
tying together. She used a bowknot she had learned from some farmer who had
hired her to help him build a tree house for his kids a few years back.
When all the strips were
tied together, she stepped into the closet and went way to the back. She
measured the sheet rope along her body by stepping on one end and raising it
the length of her body. She figured two rope lengths were about ten feet.
Altogether she figured she had about thirty feet of rope.
She folded the whole thing
in half and began twisting and knotting it about every four feet. Even then,
she figured it was still long enough to reach from the upstairs window where
she was to about the middle of the window downstairs.
Email from Marcie: When all the strips
were tied together she stepped into the closet and went way to the
back to quickly hide the rope under the clothes scattered on the
floor if anyone came through the door. She measured the sheet rope along
her body by stepping on one end and raising it the length of her body.
She estimated two rope lengths were about ten feet. Altogether she
figured she had about thirty feet of rope.
She knelt in the closet and added
another knot every four feet to give the girls a better handhold for the climb
down. Even then, she figured it was still long enough to
reach from the upstairs window where she was to about the middle of the window
downstairs.
Why is this excerpt so emotional for you to
write? And can you describe your own emotional experience of writing this
specific scene/excerpt? Again,
when I was writing that excerpt, I was just concentrating on getting the story
told in the best way possible. When I
have written poetry I cried while writing it and there are times when writing
something I will laugh because I think it is funny or I am really pleased with
how something has turned out but I think with my novels I work so hard to just
get the story out that I don’t notice my own emotional involvement in them.
When I am writing I am actually not very emotionally involved in
the story. I am just working hard to get the story and words out of my head and
unto the page. I am surprised that there are people who find passages of the
book funny. With Girl Gone Missing
I am most surprised by feedback from readers who cried at the passages that
describe Cash’s reactions in the aftermath of her solving the crime. They are
moved by her resilience and determination in the face of life-long adversary. I
don’t want to say too much because I don’t want to give the story away to those
who haven’t read it.
Other works you have published?
Am Roten Fluss (2017) Argument publisher, Hamburg, Germany
Murder on the
Red River (2017) Cinco Puntos Press
Pinckley Women’s
Debut Crime Novel Award, 2018
Finalist for
SPUR Best Contemporary Western Writers Award, 2018
A Song for Marie
and Adjidamo (2016) McGraw Hill Educational
Pow-wow Summer (2014) MN
Historical Press
The Farmer’s
Market (2001) CarolRhoda Publishers, Mpls., MN Native Artists: Livelihoods, Resources, Space, Gifts (2010)
Rendon, Marcie, Markusen, Ann; Arts Economy Initiative Project on Regional and Industrial
Economics, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
Published Plays:
Band Camp; Contemporary Plays by Women of Color, edited by
Roberta Uno, Routledge Press, 2018
Friends...; Performing Worlds into Being: Native
American Women’s Theater, edited by Ann Elizabeth Armstrong, Kelli Lyon
Johnson, and William A. Wortman; Miami University Press, Oxford, Ohio. 2009
Bring the Children Home: Footpaths & Bridges: Voices from
the Native American Women Playwrights archive; edited by Shirley Huston-Findley
& Rebecca Howard; University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2008
SongCatcher: A Native
perspective of Frances Densmore; published in Keepers of the Morning Star: An Anthology of Native Women’s Theater;
UCLA American Indian Studies Center; Los Angeles, California (2003)
Short Stories (short
selection):
doing it for us…, Yellow Medicine Review,
edited by Paul Rowley, Fall 2019
Tonight Wasn’t
Her Night to Die, Down to the River
anthology, edited by Tim O’Mara; April 2019
Civil Defense, Dark Side of the Loon; short story in
Sisters in Crime Anthology; May 2018
Worry and Wonder in Sky Blue Water: Short Fiction by 15 of
Minnesota's Great Children's Writers edited by Jay D. Peterson and Collette
Morgan, Univ of Minnesota Press, 2016
Fiction on a
Stick; we are each the next
seventh generation….; collection of short stories for Milkweed Press, 2008
Yellow Medicine
Review – Winter 2007 – Short Story:
a very common, very untraditional tale; edited by Heid Erdrich; SW
University of Minnesota, Marshall, MN
Anything you would like to add? Thank you so much and watch for book three of the Cash Blackbear stories.
Anything you would like to add? Thank you so much and watch for book three of the Cash Blackbear stories.
Marcie Rendon is a citizen
of the White Earth Nation. Her novel, Girl
Gone Missing, Cinco Puntos Press, is the second in the Cash Blackbear
series. The first, Murder on the Red River (2017 Cinco Puntos Press) received the
Pinckley Women’s Debut Crime Novel Award 2018. It was a Western Writers of
America Spur Award Finalist 2018 Contemporary Novel category.
She creates
and curates community created performance such as TPT Public Television’s Art Is…CreativeNativeResilience which
features three Anishinabe performance artists, June 2019. Diego Vazquez and
Rendon received the Loft’s 2017 Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for their work
with women incarcerated in county jails.
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