I am a timid mouse

[ritaxis]

What I love about working on a piece that is almost finished is going through and tightening, expanding, condensing, packing in more information, tying bits together to make the world richer. I find an inconsistency and I might fix it by embracing it: in the current chapter one townsperson says that the nearest clinic is in one town and several pages later another townsperson says the nearest clinic is in another town. I thought about it and I gave Pablo the chance to say "well at least that's not as far away as what we heard before."

And I've been putting in a word here, a few words there, to develop the vision of living buildings and roads. I love it. I have a whole world constructed of commensal organisms: plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, bred to produce and channel energy for homes, convert waste to various products (and energy), act as a communications network: the roads and paths are made of "turf tarmac," which is living organisms in a mineral matrix, and that's how the vehicles are steered and kept informed about the conditions ahead. I love this stuff. Some of my favorite modern sf doesn't make sense to me because there's no clear path between the nano source and the macro product. So I've been thinking about the meso level most of all.

I think meso is the write right word, anyway.

Anyway, it's going to take a little longer than I thought to finish, because there's a bunch of this stuff to do. And more typoes than I thought.

Edited: Speaking of typoes, why would I write write when I mean right?  And just now, I came very close to writing wright for both of them.

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[(Anonymous)]

"Speaking of typoes, why would I write write when I mean right?"

I find I make typos like that a lot in the last few years. Not sure if it is from aging, changes in computer habits, or other changes in my life.

Most bizarre one was just yesterday when I typed "Journey" when I meant to type "Georgia".

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