The final buffing and polishing (final is an indefinite word since there’s always One More Tyop to find) is now done.\u00a0\u00a0 So yesterday morning, bright and early, Book II poked its head up out of the debris left over from Book I and said “So let’s get started.”\u00a0 And I said “I need to clean up and organize the study.”\u00a0 And it said “Oh, no, honey, you don’t really want to do that.\u00a0 You want to listen to ME.\u00a0 I’ve got STORY here.\u00a0 Now put your seat on the seat and let’s go.”<\/p>\n
I thought, OK, can’t hurt to give it a couple of pages and it’ll slink off at that point and let me at least clear my head with a walk outside.\u00a0\u00a0 (You may all take a good hearty laugh now…you know what happened next, right?\u00a0 Yes, indeedy do, it happened.)\u00a0\u00a0 Page after page…the link from book to my brain strengthened.\u00a0 Fingers flwe (like tht, instead of flew and that)\u00a0 and it was five pages.\u00a0 Six.\u00a0 Eight.\u00a0 Ten.\u00a0 I stopped at ten and called Rancherfriend E (it was evening then, I had had a short nap in the afternoon) and read her the first ten pages and she said “MORE!\u00a0 Keep going!”<\/p>\n
This morning I’m at 21.\u00a0 Twenty one pages already.\u00a0 Mostly dialogue between Fox Company captains and the Tsaian king’s no-longer-missing brother Camwyn.\u00a0 Tossing out lines that are….even this early….laying down plot like crazy.\u00a0\u00a0 Cross-connections tightening up.\u00a0 Motivations sprouting, some with flowers and some with thorns, from the mesh.\u00a0 I don’t see–can’t see–far enough yet to see any ultimate end but there are blinks of tiny images of places and people.\u00a0 This new plot module I have is very different from the old one, but wow does it *function*.\u00a0\u00a0 And it’s busily making digging through my brain like a Roomba hunting around the furniture for things to pick up and take away\u00a0 (No, we don’t have one, but I’ve seen them at work.)\u00a0\u00a0 Mostly it works silently, and just extrudes story onto the page, but occasionally it lets out little beeps of delight or a pleasant sort of hum, very faint.<\/p>\n
I need to take some seed out on the land, though, as we *might* have some rain in the next 24 hours,\u00a0 and we’ve had none for weeks.\u00a0 Last chance to get some things going for winter annuals in the grass.\u00a0 And to mark baby\/young trees in the East Grass for keeping or cutting.<\/p>\n
It’s OK, NewBookII, I’ll be back in an hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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