Traveller's Tales

Between laziness, multiple crises and my lovable online addiction, I haven’t done much in My World(tm) lately. In some ways, this is bad, because I need to figure out exactly where I left off on book two. Although I outline (and had already done so extensively for The Grey Lord), I don’t write in a linear fashion, so there’s bound to be some confusion as to how exactly I was meaning to get to point G from point D, when point E was already taking me towards point J. That sort of thing. If it sounds confusing with letters, it’s much more so when there aren’t any, so it’s going to take some thinking to work out exactly what the hell is going on.

In some ways, though, this is actually pretty good. In between re-reading the parts of the second book that are already done, I end up questioning my original assumptions about the story, inserting my characters into alternate scenes and seeing if the story plays out better in other ways. There’s also a bunch of research to be done (speaking of which, does anyone know the smallest possible size a wood molecule can be and still be large enough to connect in a sheet? I’m sort of using this chart as a rough guide, but I’d like to know how much I can reasonably shave off from the thinnest bond size. It doesn’t have to be sturdy or even cohesive outside of another supporting structure, it just has to be thick enough to be technically a sheet of contiguous wood), so the left-brain right-brain interplay has caused a lot of interesting daydreaming, and from the daydreaming there’s some great new ideas popping up to fill in the blanks. Feedback loops are fun!

I guess that means that I’m revving up again. That’s good. It’s not “writing every day” good yet, but it’s definitely getting there.

(PS, after some more research it looks like I’m probably in the 10-100 nanometer range for my wood molecule, but I’d still like to get a properly informed and educated bit of information, so if there’s any bored microbiologists within viewing range of this blog, please set me straight!)

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