Late morning. A rather laid back Monday
morning with plans to see Kim on Wednesday for lunch. You assume the boys will
be in school (which they enjoy). The only disturbing discovery this morning was
that your sack of trash was missing from its container. Nothing was dumped.
And, it looked like a small bag of poop someone had put in a blue plastic
sleeve used for newspaper delivery. The sealed bag was placed in the top of the
ACE paper container for yard waste (leaves, dead vines, weeds, etc.). -
Amorella
1123 hours. If I hadn't taken more
trash out, if they hadn't been late with pickup I would have never known it.
Carol always is concerned about someone getting into the trash, which is the
reason she always shreds everything. Besides, that recycle container was not
touched. It was only a white wastebasket sized trash bag with a week's worth of
ordinary garbage. I don't think I will tell Carol for worrying her about mostly
nothing but oddness. So, like it or not, it was on my mind.
Now it isn't. You have a record of the
event. - Amorella
I have to get my mind organized for
the final drafting. I don't know about putting even more words as subtitles on
chapter segments.
What drew you to the subtitles in the first
place are Victorian novels, they are an enticement to enter the 'reading zone'
and help set up a "what will happen next". And, they were titles of
chapters not phrases. Readers want the 'here and now' that a title represents;
a "what you see is what you will have to read". It would be easier to
put a subtitle on each chapter and have the title relate to all four segments,
don't you think? - Amorella
1147 hours. This is much simpler
Amorella; a chapter title. I always want to complicate; you have the better
idea.
Under this circumstance it would be better
to have a chapter title first, then make sure each segment has a notable
reference to it. - Amorella
This is a return to my old device of
putting several unlike words together and the students being forced to come up
with a story that relates to all four words; only here the stories come first
and I have to find a title that fits all four.
Yes. You have not looked at the work as a
whole and this exercise, whether you choose to use it or not, will give you
some guidance as to what and why I have focused the stories as I have. -
Amorella
As these are essentially
interconnected short stories the criteria should be the 'setting, characters,
plot, theme and conclusion'.
This is what you know and taught for a third
of a century, boy. Your mother always said to write what you know, and this is
it; and what is more important here is that you 'intuitively understand this
knowledge'. - Amorella
1159 hours. What I want the reader to know is that the fun part is in
interpreting the meaning of Merlyn's dreams into a real life scenario. At least
I think it would be fun. They really are constructed from dreams, your dreams,
Amorella
Not quite, boy. I do construct them as
dream-like sequences and they appear to you to be dream-like because the
stories directly originate from your unconscious mind. For all intents
and purposes I am the representation of a real-in-your-life-Betweener. The
mystery is the-what I lie between, i.e. if you are one side, what then lies on
the other side of me, the Amorella?
1210 hours. That reminds me of last
night's dream. I was in Clintonville (an old northern suburb in Columbus). It
was late at night when I pulled up, got out of the car and when I looked in
Grandma Schick's back door window I saw Grandma Schick facing north towards the
door to the basement on the right and the entrance to the dining room to the
left. I knocked on the window and she turned and saw me and I woke up. I
thought it was real or real enough an image from a memory to be real. Then I
thought of where I was and that I could see her through the glass, not Grandma
as who Grandma really was as a person outside of being my grandmother. This was
my dream, it was not as if I were looking beyond to see her beyond life. And,
this is the way I see you Amorella even as a Betweener. You are between myself
and another part of myself -- you are the couch, if you will, in that hypnotic
state where I was the twin on both sides of the same couch. Now, this is an
interesting insight. (1220)
Carol is sitting on the living room floor using
the couch for back support, as she is half way through a new book, The
Innocent by David Balducci. Jadah the Cat is sitting in front of the floor
fan, Spooky the Cat is nowhere to be seen (appropriate enough) and the
dishwasher is working quietly in the kitchen. It is sunny, hot and humid
outside. Eventually you will go to lunch at Panera/Chipotle and stop at Kroger's
on Tylersville before heading home. Such is your Labor Day much like many other
days in retirement, and you are not a bit bored. How's that sound? - Amorella
1226 hours. It sounds right on,
Amorella; yes, an ordinary day in my corner of a good retirement.
You had lunch and are presently at Kroger's
for a few Labor Day sales such as canned colas and sodas and chips. Carol has
her book so you may go read in the shade after taking the groceries home. She
even bought a treat, a carrot cupcake, a dessert you both enjoy. When you begin
let's create a document in which to layer the final drafts as if you were
sending it to a publisher. Normally we will follow the Word document rules and
we will unless I change them for clarity, effect, and/or style. Some spelling
norms may be British with consistency the key. Word choices will be important
also as you have already noticed you overuse some adjectives. We will continue
listening to the work, as many times your ear is more important than your eye. The
general mode is analytical, left brained, but never completely. When in doubt
the literary tone is Romantic not Neo Classic. Above all setting, tone, style,
characters, dialogue, philosophy, themes, and various conclusions are plausible
in the real life of physics and heartansoulanmind in the real life of quantum
physics. - Amorella
1435 hours. Good I need to spell these
things out. For instance I am not sure what the themes are other than
existential framed in dark humor. I should probably be thinking more about
this.
No, you should not. You'll make lists then
march down them crossing off what you see and what you don't. -- You are now at
Rose Hill Cemetery under a hickory barked shade tree. Carol is two/thirds
through, on page 383 of The Innocent. We have fluffy whites and blue
sky with a dark storm off to the southeast. Let's work on these first chapters
in a new document. - Amorella
1651
hours. I have been working but am running into complications in that I don't
have an ebook format other than on Page, which appears to be a Macintosh automatic ebook
format software.
2025 hours. I
did some research. I am going to format for ebook publication on Apple Pages as
it is set to modify to the ebook format. I also copied some material from
online on how to set up for ePub files.
2311
hours. I have been working on the format and set up for the first three
chapters in Apple Page. It has taken me a while to put Page to work as I am so
used to Word. Enough for tonight, but I accomplished quite a bit of adapting
and learning ePub format also.
You have adapted to Apple Page. Post. -
Amorella
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