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I haven't writen anything since -- since the last time I wrote anything. Now I have the journal, I could look it up, but what I'm really going to do is get back to work.
I'm still futzing around with damned Carleen and her damned project. I'm having tremendous trouble here.
I remember Patricia Wrede talking about a doldrums spot at about 100 pages. Maybe this is that, only early. Anyway, I will perservere.
I figured out something I didn't know before, though. The third set of watchers? They're not just out to use our guy to get at the conduit. They're after defending the conduit from overuse and they're likely to want to kill him. But he doesn't know that until sometime during the wino episode, and he's not sure of it even then.
And that's why Araceli's wish sets him free! I've been bothered by that, because I thought that, dramatically, such folks often will destroy the thing they can't use, and I didn't want my guy to die (for one thing, I don't like most narratives by dead or dying people, though the ones I do like are really really nice, because they've confronted the problem of writing such a thing). So I've been trying to figure out how he survives that final conrontation. Now I know. Araceli's wish makes our guy unusable, and that satisfies the watchers.
I'm still futzing around with damned Carleen and her damned project. I'm having tremendous trouble here.
I remember Patricia Wrede talking about a doldrums spot at about 100 pages. Maybe this is that, only early. Anyway, I will perservere.
I figured out something I didn't know before, though. The third set of watchers? They're not just out to use our guy to get at the conduit. They're after defending the conduit from overuse and they're likely to want to kill him. But he doesn't know that until sometime during the wino episode, and he's not sure of it even then.
And that's why Araceli's wish sets him free! I've been bothered by that, because I thought that, dramatically, such folks often will destroy the thing they can't use, and I didn't want my guy to die (for one thing, I don't like most narratives by dead or dying people, though the ones I do like are really really nice, because they've confronted the problem of writing such a thing). So I've been trying to figure out how he survives that final conrontation. Now I know. Araceli's wish makes our guy unusable, and that satisfies the watchers.