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The weather has cooled down radically. People profess to be cold, though I know in two months they'll be stripping down to the minimum (which around here is pretty well minimum) on days like this. There's a lovely overcast and we're getting ready for rain. It's the anxious overlap between fire season and "when will it really start raining" season.
Meanwhile I have started the next chapter and I'm happy with it. THere are a lot of introspective bits in this book, but I try to keep them short and well connected up with the action. And for them who do not think a book has action without gore, there's plenty of it. I'm surprised, actually, given that I had originally thought that everything I have written so far was back story: only the first chapter was already there. This appears to be how I write: the scene I think of at the beginning ends up coming in the middle or the end.
Another thing. (identity suppressed until I figure out the ettiquette here: you know who you are, am I supposed to use your handle or your name here? I don't want to do the wrong thing) Someone was musing about story shape. And I was thinking that this had a kind of helical shape, because he keeps being picked up by people who use him and then lose him, either by being killed or in the normal way that people lose casual acquaintances, but every time that happens he gains some more -- insight, maybe, or bits of humanness or at least human lore -- and so he's spiralling upward (or maybe downward, or maybe in some other direction!) And then it's sort of picaresque, at least up until a couple of chapters from now, when it will probably stop being a series of incidents and start being instead a single story.
Are picaresques usually helical? Or "beads on a string?"
Meanwhile I have started the next chapter and I'm happy with it. THere are a lot of introspective bits in this book, but I try to keep them short and well connected up with the action. And for them who do not think a book has action without gore, there's plenty of it. I'm surprised, actually, given that I had originally thought that everything I have written so far was back story: only the first chapter was already there. This appears to be how I write: the scene I think of at the beginning ends up coming in the middle or the end.
Another thing. (identity suppressed until I figure out the ettiquette here: you know who you are, am I supposed to use your handle or your name here? I don't want to do the wrong thing) Someone was musing about story shape. And I was thinking that this had a kind of helical shape, because he keeps being picked up by people who use him and then lose him, either by being killed or in the normal way that people lose casual acquaintances, but every time that happens he gains some more -- insight, maybe, or bits of humanness or at least human lore -- and so he's spiralling upward (or maybe downward, or maybe in some other direction!) And then it's sort of picaresque, at least up until a couple of chapters from now, when it will probably stop being a series of incidents and start being instead a single story.
Are picaresques usually helical? Or "beads on a string?"
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