Paksworld

Now that III is with Editor and Agent,  and I have recovered some of the lost sleep,  I can start thinking about the ground that Book IV needs to cover, as well as start deciding what to do with discarded bits of III.   Some will make side stories, as they occur far too early in III to be continued into IV.    Some–occurring temporally after the end of III, definitely need to be in IV.

Although I planned to take the whole week off to rest up, other stuff got in the way.   Epiphany, for instance: for those of us who are active in one of the liturgically traditional churches, there’s a second calendar to deal with.  Epiphany isn’t just a word; it’s a feast day, with a service to sing for (if you’re in the choir) and necessarily a rehearsal before that.   But not just Epiphany–other things required writer-business attention, and one still does.  A trip to the bank to get my French tax forms certified.

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