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Just discovered what could be a rather unfortunate hiccup in the outline for the work in progress. I’m not sure the material that’s currently divided up into the next two chapters is really more than a single chapter’s worth. 😕

Blah…

Been told by one of my beta-readers that I’m going just a little too far on the MC’s/narrator’s dialect in the work-in-progress. And while my other beta doesn’t have the same complaint, I’m inclined to listen. Written dialect is one of those things where a little goes a very long way, and even the slightest bit too much can render the text silly and/or unreadable to some of the audience. So yeah; now I just need to decide if I want to make the changes from this point on, or keep writing as I have been and then change the manuscript all at once.

(It’s not a difficult change to make–mostly, I think, just a few find-and-replaces–so I’m honestly not sure if it’s worth the mental shift to make the change for the remainder of the book or not.)

And yep, I said "MC/narrator." I haven’t written in first-person in years, except for a couple of short stories, but this book concept absolutely demanded it.

There’s enough pollen coating the cement in the walkway and balcony outside the apartment for me to go out and roll it up to make a "pollen man." With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal, even.

Anyone up for a snowball fight with a side of extra allergens? Just give me a minute to stick a pair of bendy-straws up my nose so I can breathe, and I’ll be right out…

There’s enough pollen coating the cement in the walkway and balcony outside the apartment for me to go out and roll it up topmake "pollen men." With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal, even.

Anyone up for a snowball fight with a side of extra allergens? Just give me a minute to stick a pair of bendy-straws up my nose so I can breathe, and I’ll be right out…

More like a flaycation, am I right? *

Taking a day or two off writing the Work in Progress, so that I can…

…work on the copy edits of The Warlord’s Legacy.

My definition of "time off" differs from that of you Earth people.

*(I am not.)

So, in the past two or three weeks, I have come up with a whole heaping mess of new ideas. Unfortunately, the majority of them are either

A) Tie-in story ideas for properties that I am not currently, and unlikely to ever be, working on; or

B) Book titles that are completely inappropriate for any of my existing ideas, and are not providing me with any story/plot ideas to go along with them.

This, Brain, is not helpful. You shall stop this immediately, or I’m putting you in the corner until you learn how to behave…