…working on outline, which is not your A, B, C sort of outline, but a ragtag set of ‘this scene’, coupled with ‘things that need to be explained’ and ‘things that need to happen’ and ‘people in the scene’ so I can move them about. I used to do this on strips of paper. Now computers cut and paste.<\/p>\n
Writing in series is kind of an assembly of a garment from a scrap barrel. You need notes. You have ideas. But you need organization. <\/p>\n
And I want to have most of my flapping, squawking ducks in a row before I settle down to write that first sentence. If you write the wrong first sentence you can be two weeks trying to fit it in before getting sane and junking it.<\/p>\n
So I try to be right the first time.<\/p>\n
We’ve had some cooling rain. Weather is settling back to blue skies. Clean blue skies, which is a great thing. That means the fires are out.<\/p>\n
The knee is doing pretty well—not so’s I want to hike and carry stuff, but doing ok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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