Notes - a whale and a rebuttal and errors galore

         Later in the afternoon. You arrived home from lunch and shopping, watered the grass seedlings and flowers and now you are sitting in the shade facing west at Rose Hill Cemetery. Carol is on page 115 of The Lost Patriot. You are wondering if perhaps we should discontinue the blog while you are working on the final draft and like things. - Amorella

         1625 hours. I suddenly realize there is an arrogance in this thinking -- that people may read this for what I think and how I construct a novel but now that I am not doing that the readers will be bored . . . like I have so many readers . . . and like this is some form of entertainment I am providing. I realize this is a working blog and what you see is what you get so live with it or shut me off.

         The meat of what this is about is that you are embarrassed that you are not doing anything, or you appear to be not doing anything. No research, no new exciting ideas to ponder on in terms of GMG. You feel like the artist who doesn't want anyone seeing herorhis painting until it is complete. That however is not what this blog is about. The focus is on heartansoulanmind and even if it is 'grammar' it is a passion to you whether it is to anyone else or not. As you move along I'll include a couple of examples each day of thoughts/debates you have on grammar and the like in the continued drafting. And, as you have three chapter drafts finalized we'll drop them in. An audio draft is not necessarily a final draft, or what you or I would consider a final draft. Even when the final drafts are completed there will still be some last minute tweaking here and there. Writing a novel is an art form, and writing an original series of novels from published previous final drafts is also at art form. Words are not sculpturing stone, boy. Besides, you and I both know you are no Michelangelo. The novels are a form of writing on the wall though, the inner wall of the reader's skull. That's how it is in here. Why? Because this is where I am in your skull, do you have that in your young head, boy? - Amorella

         1641 hours. I had not thought about that, about your point of view of the words floating across the skull. Interesting perspective.

         Who said the words float, boy? Floating is what I do. - Amorella

         Okay. How do you see the words in the novel, Amorella?

         One letter stacked on another, one dimensionally. - Amorella

         1645 hours. Where I see a string of words you see the thread straight on?

         No, but this as close as you are capable of seeing presently.

         1646 hours. The thought as a light beam, you see the novel as a single beam of light, from beginning to end or from the end to the beginning.

         Closer, orndorff. But presently it is not a single beam because that will be the final draft of each book; you got that analogy, young man? - Amorella

         Wow. What a way to project a thought, Amorella. I cannot be here and think that -- I have to have a consideration of placement.

         You do, boy. And when you think it, your mind is not in the existential here and now. - Amorella

         No one will understand these books, Amorella. This is like young Einstein's concept of wondering what it would be like to be riding on the front of a light beam (or something like that).

         In here that beam of light in the final draft is as the path of a bullet. Does this harden it for you?

         1655 hours. Ho, ho! Amorella, this is my metaphysical conceit example I used to use in class, "Love is a bullet." Now I know where all this is coming from. Very good, Amorella.

         You don't know the half of it, young man. Post when you have the opportunity. Carol has just begun 'Chapter Twenty-eight. Later, dude. - Amorella

         1659 hours. "It is a fine, fine day," said Ahab to Starbuck once upon a page.

         You have a whale of dark humor, boy. 

         2140 hours. If I have a whale of dark humor, Amorella, it has to be the white whale of four margins and between the letters and lines. (I know, I'm slow. That took me more than four hours to think up a rebuttal.) 

        Time for bed. You have had problems with Apple Page by committing several errors after you have done at least two chapters of letter dressings for headings, etc. Now you have to begin chapters four, five and six once again because you had it set at point 14 rather than point 12. Patience. Get a good night's sleep. Post.  - Amorella

         2235 hours. I am not a happy camper. I should have known better after the first set of errors but I made a second, then a third. Simple errors caused by, as a carpenter might say, several errors in measurement of one piece of wood. Now I have three pieces and none, so far are correct. Agggghhhh. (I'll get over it.)