1350 wasn’t enough for a chapter. I spent hours today trying to get that chapter to become what it is meant to be–a critical moment in the novel where multiple character arcs experience a turning point and lead us headlong into the next, and most dangerous, part of the narrative.
No, I wasn’t successful.
At this rate I will never finish this revision. One chapter a week is hot garbage. I need to punch through tomorrow and get right. The clock is ticking down to oblivion. At any rate, this is on my mind. I don’t want it to consume all of my life and energy, so I decided to dig at my hindbrain by offering you all…
Some Thoughts:
- Been off youtube for a while. Probably a good thing. However, the moment I’m back home with the 23 year old, I realize that youtube is the way for young people. They are about it in a way they are not about regular tv. This leads me to posit that regualar TV is dead. Not dying, dead. The way radio is dead. Sure, there are podcasts, DLs, etc. Sure, people still listen, but it isn’t what it was. Neither is TV.
- Government stuff is wild right now. As I type there are protests across the country on a day where 4 Minnesota politicians were the subject of an attempted assassination and two died. Meanwhile Trump is hosting a military parade… for his birthday. We are entering a space where political protest is being viewed as anti-American and protesting a particular government is codified as anti-semetic. End of times stuff. According to Eschatology, that is exactly what they want…