Whatever holidays you celebrate in this season….or firmly avoid, in this season…I wish you all as pleasant a passage from December to the New Year as possible.\u00a0 We will be having a quiet holiday season, since we can’t drive at night and thus can’t go to the Sing-Along Messiah, or any performances, or attend the late service Christmas Eve.\u00a0 I’m just a wee bit sad about that.\u00a0 I LOVE that service.\u00a0 I sang that service for years and years and years and miss it.<\/p>\n
But still, the season is the season and it’s silly to ignore what we can have, including the streaming of that service from the cathedral in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile the rewriting goes on.\u00a0 First rewrite–better but not enough.\u00a0 Second rewrite–better here and here but still problems in these other places.\u00a0 So I’m working on it.\u00a0 There is a sort of slump in the middle, my agent says, and–thinking about it–I can see what he means.\u00a0 It doesn’t slump in my mind–I know there are things going on, but to my agent they seem kind of “busywork by minor characters”.\u00a0\u00a0 People going back and forth…stage business sort of.\u00a0 OK.\u00a0 That’s because the underside is busily making trouble, but it’s still hidden, a lot of it.\u00a0 So bring that up to the surface.\u00a0 Find the right characters to discover it, the right villains to leak it in conversation somewhere–or just show them directly.\u00a0 I have two, at present, that I can use for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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