[LMB] (chat) On Topic

[Lois McMaster Bujold]

So, how 'bout that Hallowed Hunt 24?  Or the Epilogue...

Also on the subject of on-topic, I am pleased to report that I finished 
Ch. 22 of _The Wide Green World_ vol. 1 this evening, and mailed it out 
to my usual suspects.  Of which one e-mailed back in an hour with a 
one-word critique:  "Wow."

We like this...

A couple of chapters of wrap to go.  I may actually submit it by that 
point, if they wrap nicely enough.

This one has been a most peculiar volume to write.  I was rather hoping 
that doing the double duology would get me off the hook for writing the 
middle book of a trilogy -- you know, that volume that inevitably and 
unavoidably starts in the middle, ends in the middle, and solves 
nothing.  By mid-way through, I was having my doubts about whether I'd 
succeed in ducking that bullet or not, but maybe I have.  It's a very 
interesting technical problem, to have the overall mid-story disaster 
double in brass as the first volume climax, and still have any rounding 
or closure at all.  "Look!  Inside this can of worms we find... a bigger 
can of worms!  Yay!"

Damn, this is fun.  When it isn't totally maddening or wholly 
frustrating, that is.

I wish I knew what the happens next.  More walks, methinks.  September 
looks to be a lovely month for that around here.

Tomorrow, a haircut.  And get my car's oil changed.  And other life 
maintenance of that ilk.  Also pick up a new carton of copier paper from 
Office Max.  I so enjoy being able to buy a whole carton at a time... no 
artificial shortages.  Although the time may come when I can no longer 
lift one by myself, I suppose.

Ta, L.





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