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Well, it only took four hours to make my quota this time, and most of the goofing off I've been doing is food and botany neepery in rasfc.
I didn't really stop because I'd met my quota. I stopped because I have finished off a chunk of business and I have to rethink the next bit of business. It's not that I don't know everything that happens, but I have to get the telling right.
I found two of my Afterwar notebooks and they did help some but some of the notes are not in those. Somewhere there's an absolutely ragged Japanese notebook with a sheaf of doodles, maps, charts, and squiggles stapled in it. I'm very glad to have what I do, though. I was right: my original names were much better than the ones I made up to take their place. Though Emma prefers Benavente to Lenker Martín. She says Lenker Martín makes her think of the villainess in "The Fifth Element." I can't see it, and I'm ignoring her objections. The other thing that was confirmed by the discovery of my notes is that I have not forgotten most of the plot details. And I have made some improvements, like Afifah, the child Pablo catches trying to pick up construction workers, and Jun, a little boy who has tossed off a remark I will build on later. And it's much easier, I see, to foreshadow things that have already been written once(as opposed to just dreamed up.
On another note, I just want to remember this: the most interesting music at the Bollywood site is by Arasalum Ayyappan T L Maharaja, in the Tamil section.
I didn't really stop because I'd met my quota. I stopped because I have finished off a chunk of business and I have to rethink the next bit of business. It's not that I don't know everything that happens, but I have to get the telling right.
I found two of my Afterwar notebooks and they did help some but some of the notes are not in those. Somewhere there's an absolutely ragged Japanese notebook with a sheaf of doodles, maps, charts, and squiggles stapled in it. I'm very glad to have what I do, though. I was right: my original names were much better than the ones I made up to take their place. Though Emma prefers Benavente to Lenker Martín. She says Lenker Martín makes her think of the villainess in "The Fifth Element." I can't see it, and I'm ignoring her objections. The other thing that was confirmed by the discovery of my notes is that I have not forgotten most of the plot details. And I have made some improvements, like Afifah, the child Pablo catches trying to pick up construction workers, and Jun, a little boy who has tossed off a remark I will build on later. And it's much easier, I see, to foreshadow things that have already been written once(as opposed to just dreamed up.
On another note, I just want to remember this: the most interesting music at the Bollywood site is by Arasalum Ayyappan T L Maharaja, in the Tamil section.