Still not done.\u00a0 Little chunks have come out.\u00a0 Bigger chunks of new material have appeared.\u00a0\u00a0 Sequence tangles have been extricated, laid out, and put in order, with necessary transitions.\u00a0 It’s taken this long to get the first thirty-two days of the story cleaned up, and to introduce things that were left out.\u00a0 It’s gonna be a long, cold winter of work, not the relatively easy re-write I’m more familiar with.\u00a0 But it’s better.\u00a0 It’s already a lot better.\u00a0\u00a0 In my probably still imperfect opinion.<\/p>\n
Plotwise, there are now connecting lines to two previous plot elements from the first two books of Vatta’s Peace…skinny little lines so far, but connections that are part of the pull-through, the tension that will cross the keystone and pull the whole thing together.\u00a0 One connects to the deep history and one to a period in Slotter Key’s history that generated the conflicts of the current day.\u00a0 Now to start tugging…I would love it if these two opposing lines crunched everything together in one volume.\u00a0 Otherwise it’s a couple more years of work at least and I’m not sure the time is available.\u00a0 Not with other work pending.<\/p>\n
Well. Time to get back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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