Daniel Paliwoda

Monday 08 July 2024 I have entered the two month-plus mark with my revisions.  I started revision work on BOOK 2.  Hence, I am entering the final or last phase of the Revision of my Katyn manuscript.  I postponed working on BOOK 2 for this long amount of time because I wanted to get a […]

Monday 01 July 2024 Week Eight was an important moment in the revision of the Katyn manuscript.  By midweek, I began to see the “beginning of the end.”  After revising BOOKS 3 and 4, I will have the (major) revision of BOOK 2 and the rewriting of the opening sequence of FADING OUTRO.  And the

Monday 24 June 2024 I knew that BOOK 6 would take several weeks to revise.  After all, it is the longest chapter in the manuscript.  It narrates the summer abroad trip to Poland and Russia.  It dramatizes the awful experience the cadet had in Moscow Metro.  That experience was the first realization that the book

Monday 17 June 2024 These entries from Week Six of The Revision Diaries candidly describe the emotional process of revising and adding new written content for BOOK 6 of the Katyn manuscript.  Although this work was slow going—in large part due to the highly emotional content I was creating—I enjoyed the methodical nature of the

Monday 10 June 2024 After last week’s hectic and emotionally challenging revisions, I found myself completing the revision of BOOK 5.  I removed significant portions of it.  I like its current status; however, the concluding paragraph, I think, will need an additional revision session.  I need to see how BOOK 6 turns out before I

Monday 3 June 2024 This fourth entry for THE REVISION DIARIES series traces a difficult week while revising my Katyn manuscript.  Reviewing the daily entries found below, I’m not sure if I fully convey the struggles I encountered while working on BOOK 5.  Last night while reflecting on today’s blog, I decided that once I

Monday 27 May 2024 This third installment of THE REVISION DIARIES reveals the writing difficulties while finishing FADING OUTRO. Once I resolved the dilemmas that made the completion so emotionally challenging, I completed it. Mailed a print-out of FADING OUTRO to King Arthur. Worked next on my Katyn visit–one of the so-called “Everest moments,” as

Monday 20 May 2024 This second installment of THE REVISION DIARIES again focuses on the writing process of FADING OUTRO, the so-called Afterward that King Arthur suggested I write.  Excellent progress: daily writing.  I wrestled with what exactly the theme of FADING OUTRO should be; but as I continued to free write, the realization dawned

Monday 13 May 2024 I started revising my Katyn manuscript. During the past week, I worked on the so-called “Afterward,” new written content. Motivated by King Arthur’s suggestion that I provide some kind of epilogue or postscript, I found myself writing new material but also revising blog drafts I decided were better suited for the

Tuesday 07 May 2024 Dear Student: Over the years, several students have asked for my guidance concerning reading additional books.  And in the past, I had prepared a stock, typical list of titles—or, at least, I had considered that reading list to be stock because I thought other professors or teachers would select the very