Tough day in the word mines. I made quota, but the real problem is how much more I am stuffing into this novel post edit. Imagine being an editor and editing an 80K manuscript and getting one back that is roughly twice that. I fear this may be the case. The first two chapters came in at 10k. They certainly were not that dense before. Yet there are things that need saying early, and that tonality has remained through chapter 4. I have a short chapter three, but I added that entire chapter, so it doesn’t actually count. This has gone really different from past work. I think I am in a different place with it and I think that I am creating a story that says a lot. Is it readable? Not sure. Honestly not sure.
Meanwhile life has continued to surprise.
We are struggling to figure out our summer and the pre-honeymoon phase to go with it. I feel like it is important to take the Lady Talis to Italy, because it is her happy place. However, the money is always a situation. When you want to travel globally, it is the most important thing to consider–well that and how Americans are seen right now… which is not very good.