Hatrack River Writers Workshop: My inspiration

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Posted by rcorporon (Member # 2879) on :

Just wanted to give some of the people here who know me a little treat.

A while ago, I had posted that my wife had miscarried (for the fourth time) and I was having trouble writing after having been emotionally destroyed by this event. (Outlined here: http://www.hatrack.com/forums/writers/forum/Forum1/HTML/003508.html)

Well, the writing is still only so-so since then, but something else has happened since then as well.

We decided to try again, and she did indeed become pregnant.

After a shaky pregnancy, and many emotional ups and downs, on March 3rd, 2008, she underwent a c-section (5 weeks early) and gave me my son, Jakob Dylan Normand. At birth he was only 28 cm, and 2.338 kg's.

Well, he's a bit older now, and I'd like to share a pic with you guys.

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/1012/n5953403423646134908ep2.jpg

If that doesn't work, PM me and if you'd like, I'll send you the pic.

Needless to say, I've found some new inspiration for my writing.

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Note from Kathleen: the link to your topic didn't work because of a stray ) which I removed.

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Posted by Tiergan (Member # 7852) on :

Congrats! It is amazing how they give us the ability to dream again isnt it?

Posted by InarticulateBabbler (Member # 4849) on :

Congratulations!!! (And to the wife, too) Isn't he cunning?

Posted by KayTi (Member # 5137) on :

Congratulations! What a beauty. I am glad you're through those particular ups and downs now (a whole new set of them are in store as you probably know, LOL)

This parenting thing is fun.

Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :

Congratulations, rcorporon. That is such great news!

Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :

Congratulations...you named your kid after Bob Dylan's kid?

Posted by rcorporon (Member # 2879) on :

Thanks to everybody for your kind words.

As for his name, we chose Jakob because we liked it, Dylan is my brother's name, and Normand is my wife's father's name.

I personally can't stand Bob Dylan, and hadn't noticed the similarity in the name .

Posted by mikemunsil (Member # 2109) on :

Congratulations to you both!

Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :

They say that Paul Revere of 1960's group Paul Revere and the Raiders came by his name honestly, being named by parents who either didn't know...or didn't care.

If he chooses to put his name about when he reaches school age, I'm sure his classmates will let him know...

(I don't use my middle name, partly because my first-and-middle names make up the name of an SF writer. (Not Heinlein, mercifully, but a minor one active in the 1960s and 1970s.) I came by mine honestly, too---it's a family name.)