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I'm paying for staying up late. I can hardly work. I've wasted the morning, mostly. I'm taking this break at less than 1200 words to shame myself into writing more.
I'm trying to keep this from being a mere picaresque travelogue of the down-and-out South Bay. My guy spends a lot of time fleeing, though, and I don't know how better to set him up for life with the Boss and later with Candelario than to show his interactions with other people up till then.
I know that at some time I'm going to have to give it a snappier title than Gratitude. For one thing, I don't think it's actually about gratitude.
Now, when the time comes, is Araceli going to tell our guy "Puss in Boots" or "The White Cat" or "One Good Turn Deserves Another?" Probably "Puss in Boots." Still, our guy is not an enchanted prince, he's Faust's homunculus. I should reread Faust.
I'm trying to keep this from being a mere picaresque travelogue of the down-and-out South Bay. My guy spends a lot of time fleeing, though, and I don't know how better to set him up for life with the Boss and later with Candelario than to show his interactions with other people up till then.
I know that at some time I'm going to have to give it a snappier title than Gratitude. For one thing, I don't think it's actually about gratitude.
Now, when the time comes, is Araceli going to tell our guy "Puss in Boots" or "The White Cat" or "One Good Turn Deserves Another?" Probably "Puss in Boots." Still, our guy is not an enchanted prince, he's Faust's homunculus. I should reread Faust.
