When you’re writing a book that covers various seasons, you’re often writing out of season.\u00a0 It’s Texas in late July, and today I was writing about a Midwinter celebration somewhere in Lyonya.\u00a0\u00a0 The Midwinter Feast I wrote about in Fin Panir, when Paks was there, about to become a paladin candidate, or the one that Gird’s followers had all alone in that winter camp,\u00a0 had covered, I thought, the ground of what Midwinter celebrations were like, and I had not expected any big surprises.<\/p>\n
I was wrong.\u00a0\u00a0 If this is right–and I’m pretty sure it is right, at least in substance if not in detail–it kicks in the top of another Pandora’s box of possibilities.\u00a0\u00a0 It was also harrowing to write, not least because a change in air pressure between yesterday and today produced a whopping sinus-generated headache.\u00a0 I knew I had to write it, and had to finish the main part of it tonight, but the headache didn’t help.<\/p>\n
This being Book III, I can’t tell you anything about it (and I want to–I had to go roust husband out of his computer and make him listen to it.)\u00a0\u00a0 You’ll know it when you come to it.\u00a0\u00a0 I won’t be able to process it intellectually for at least a few days, though I’m just beginning to sense some of what went into it (the obvious pops up at once, but the roots go down past that.)<\/p>\n
Anyway…2348 difficult words today, and I hope I get some sleep tonight, because someone’s coming to work on the computer tomorrow and give it a voice (this one doesn’t have sound.\u00a0 Mostly that’s good, but I couldn’t complete on online-learning thing I wanted to do because it doesn’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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