Thanks to the packing and preparation for moving M- into an apartment in the city, writing time has remained minimal this week…but some progress is happening, at least in my head.\u00a0\u00a0 I hope and expect to have a sort of microburst of writing when he’s installed, writing it all down in sequence rather than rough notes.<\/p>\n
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I really can’t talk much about Book III right now, except to assure you it’s coming along, since anything I share is likely to drop major spoiler lumps of Kings<\/em> all over the landscape.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Book III is acting like a typical “hinge” book, and thus spilling secrets all over the place, though the significance of most\/some of them is still withheld.\u00a0\u00a0 Although not all the parts are in place yet (Book III isn’t halfway yet), enough are that I can begin to see the shape of the rest of the story arc, beyond “And then a lot of stuff happens and at the end there’s this grand sort of tie-up.”<\/p>\n I can tell you that there will be much more about people you already care about,\u00a0 and that not all the news is good.\u00a0\u00a0 I would very much like to pull some comforting miracles out of thin air for something I wrote this week, but I’m afraid that’s a cheat, in this instance.\u00a0\u00a0 Sometimes my intuition at this point is wrong, though, and the plot daemon has a secret coil of causation I didn’t know about.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe it’s just dire so I’ll write it dire, and all will be well and all manner of thing will be well.<\/p>\n When we finally do get M- installed in his apartment, I will have to dive into map-making with great speed and intensity for a week (maps should’ve been there by now.)\u00a0\u00a0 THEN back to normal writing, maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thanks to the packing and preparation for moving M- into an apartment in the city, writing time has remained minimal this week…but some progress is happening, at least in my head.\u00a0\u00a0 I hope and expect to have a sort of microburst of writing when he’s installed, writing it all down in sequence rather than rough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,5],"tags":[112,20,107],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-the-writing-life","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-progress-report","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}