I’m thrilled to be bringing you soon the final installment in the Steve Miles trilogy. Just as Steve has grown a great deal (mostly) since he received that phone call while he sat on a barstool on that cool, fall evening in a Georgetown bar in A Moveable Marfa, I too have grown a great deal as a writer. If you’ve followed along with me on this journey (and if you have, I’m enormously grateful to you), you may have noticed that my writing has matured, at least I hope you have.
Since completing The Sommières Sun in 2021, I have had a lot of life experiences and spent a lot of quality time in New Orleans and Marfa to seek new inspirations, think through scenes and write. The bulk of Twilight in the Quarter takes place in New Orleans, Marfa and Sommières, France.
I wanted to share some vignettes during the writing of the book. (I have so many great memories of writing the book, there maybe be another blog or two on this topic in the future.)
I had some great creative bursts crossing Texas on the Sunset Limited a couple of times. The train proved to be a great writing environment. I recommend it to fellow writers!
I wrote a chapter or so at the Casita Bar in Marfa (since closed, for now). It was an eclectic environment and called for a few macrobrews. I sat at that table with the pink lamp.
I had a few good writing sessions at the Big Bend Sentinel Coffee House. The dude at the table across from my laptop (second picture) inspired a character who gives Steve some grief as a writer. Twilight the Quarter has a scene here.
My patio at the Hotel Paisano was particularly conducive to writing. I cranked a out chapter and cleaned up a couple of other chapters there.
Marfa Spirits hosted a scene in the book, a couple of writing sessions and a happy hour with friends.
Of course the Hotel Paisano was inspirational in its own right. Here’s a few random pictures I took during my stay. (The cast of “Giant” stayed at the hotel while filming the movie there in 1955.)
I really could go on and on and include a number of writing venues around New Orleans, but I’ll end with the one below. I took these pictures yesterday.
Not only was it a writing venue, an extremely important scene takes place in this bar.
Okay, enough update for now I hope. Back to working with the editor!
Soon I hope!!
–CE Hunt
CE Hunt 