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My first lesson in blogging ...

... is to keep checking my website.  Thanks to Moril, Patrick, Estara, and Arid Zephyr for getting the ball rolling!

To answer you in reverse order, well, Arid, as you can probably tell, I care for Jame probably too much for my own comfort.  As Hawthorne says, "Easy reading is damned hard writing," and my various publishers certainly haven't made things any easier.  I consider telling this story to be my primary life's work.  That in turn has felt like ramming into one stone wall after another head first. How do I feel now that I have a real deadline?  Panicky.  I hate writing first drafts, but can edit forever.  In the past, the intricacy of the story has come from the layering of details over many drafts.  This time I'm rewriting as I go, not something I would recommend.  If I don't feel the story alive on the page, though, it's hard to keep going.  I was better when I was younger at keeping the whole plot spinning in my head at all times.  That was more like play, the spirit in which God Stalk was written.  I'm trying to get back to that.  To do that, though, I have to put all past publishing  disappointments behind me as well as some pretty heavy family and personal issues.  To get some idea of the latter, read "Horsewoman" under Essays on this site. Let's just say that life, especially the past eight years, has pretty much knocked the playfulness out of me.  I hope that's only temporary.  Success with Baen would certainly help.

Estara, thanks for the blog suggestions.  I'll look them up.  I don't know much about the variout blog protocols.  Maybe some other format would suit my purposes better than this journal.  I don't know yet if this kind of writing is going to divert me from the real work.  Hopefully not.

Patrick, yup, here I finally am.  Tech-wise, I'm a slow learner.  My first two novels and doctoral ds. were  first written long-hand on lined theme paper.  A fan at MIT kept the domain name for me for years before I got up the nerve to try to create a website, only to find it too much for me, so I turned to a professional web-designer for help.  The stark look is deliberate:  I hope to use it as a back drop for my parents' art and my own, as well as various clip art from Dover books.  Once i get more of said art posted, it should be more interactive and decorative.

 Moril, that's a great use of letters!  I hope you keep copies for yourself.

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