A quiet day to roar ahead on Second Draft. All the sub-pl...
A quiet day to roar ahead on Second Draft. All the sub-plots of Mr. J Goes to Washington (working title) are coming together more clearly - in rough draft, I'm often still thinking things through, so there's a lot of obvious re-stating of things, and rambling conversations that don't go anywhere. (This is the reason people re-write!)
Since January sort of stumbles into the murder-mystery part while he's investigating (for pay) the disappearance of a mathematician, the story is basically two cases: body-snatching and secret codes on one side, and early baseball, slavery, and loving inappropriate people on the other. The trick for me is to make both cases very clear and un-confusing to follow.
A lot to do, since starting tomorrow I'll have a boatload of research-papers to read through, and finals after that. It's a time of gray mornings, when the red flowers outside the study window seem blazingly bright. MAJOR kitty drama continues, with yowling, hissing, cat-fights and harsh language.
I look forward to summer, when I get to clean up after the Easter luncheon.
Since January sort of stumbles into the murder-mystery part while he's investigating (for pay) the disappearance of a mathematician, the story is basically two cases: body-snatching and secret codes on one side, and early baseball, slavery, and loving inappropriate people on the other. The trick for me is to make both cases very clear and un-confusing to follow.
A lot to do, since starting tomorrow I'll have a boatload of research-papers to read through, and finals after that. It's a time of gray mornings, when the red flowers outside the study window seem blazingly bright. MAJOR kitty drama continues, with yowling, hissing, cat-fights and harsh language.
I look forward to summer, when I get to clean up after the Easter luncheon.
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