Accounting

Some statistics about my participation in the 2010 Blogathon as of May 17, 2010:

Posts that have traveled through time:  4

Story pitches  made to outside publications instead of turned into posts: 3

Percentage of posts made after 11 p.m.: 90

Instances of nakedness while composing/posting items: 3

Drafts written in bath tubs: 1

Drafts preceded by drippy sprints out of the shower: 1

Posts written with others in the room: 2

Posts conceived while visiting a niece's make-believe amusement park: 1

Number of surfaces, on average, post drafts have been written upon: 2

Nearly completed drafts of 500 words or greater deleted before posting: 1

Trivia competitions during which posts were drafted: 1

Number of rounds during trivia contest between which posts were drafted: 4

Place in which the author, competing alone, finished during said trivia match: 3rd

Avocados consumed: 9

Bill Lascher

Bill Lascher an acclaimed writer who crafts stories about people, history, and place through immersive narratives and meticulous research. His books include A Danger Shared: A Journalist’s Glimpses of a Continent at War (Blacksmith Books, 2024), The Golden Fortress: California's Border War on Dust Bowl Refugees (2022, Chicago Review Press), and Eve of a Hundred Midnights: The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two WWII Correspondents and Their Epic Escape Across the Pacific (2016, William Morrow).

https://www.lascheratlarge.com
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