22 September 2014

Notes - Stage Manager / 'Transparency' for ch 6 /

         Mid-morning. You were up periodically through the night with coughing fits and don’t feel so well to far today. Carol is running an errand with neighbor Amy King and has volunteered to donate blood at Hoxworth at noon. You need to prep chapter six and do the stats on chapter five. – Amorella

         Noon. Just up from a nap you are feeling a bit better. When Carol returns, out for lunch and running further errands. – Amorella

         1226 hours. I cleaned the litter boxes and swept their surrounds and cleaned up myself for lunch out if Carol will trust that I will not have a coughing fit. Ellie is sitting between my ankles on the footstool. I needed to get out of the bedroom and downstairs. The day is looking rather pleasant with the blue sky intermixed with white clouds – reminds me of the recent setting of the Dead in chapter five. I think of the characters dressed for their own times except for Merlyn who I think might well ‘dress’ for the times he is in rather than his traditional seventh century garb or Druid wrappings. In here he is a man for all seasons and earthly times.

         You did not emulate Merlyn to become him boy, so get that out of your mind. You adapted an historical and legendary character in which to ‘ride’ your dreams. Merlyn is the vehicle and center of the story. For you the center of the story is whichever character you have on stage at the moment, even the setting is not essential. The ‘base’ for this is one of your favorite plays of all time Thorton Wilder’s Our Town. It is the quintessential seed if you will of the whole of your Merlyn stories. If any scene of your books was dropped on the stage, the truest of settings would be the starkness in Our Town. You got that boy? Post. Amorella

         1255 hours. Strange I see these words as true though I never thought on such an event before. 

          You are the Stage Manager. I direct. - Amorella

         You both had excellent tasting and generous dinners at Longhorn. Carol had salmon and a sweet potato and you had a six-ounce renegade sirloin and a loaded baked potato with a side of onions and mushrooms. You split the side salad. Carol is presently at Target in the VOA Centre looking for a curling iron. Next stop, Kroger’s for sugarless cough drops. – Amorella

         1642 hours. I have the stats for chapter five:

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Ch. 5  – Resolution
Words -  3106
Sentences - 249
Words per Sentence – 11.6
Sentences/Paragraph – 2.2
Passive Sentences – 1%
Flesh Reading Ease - 100.0
Flesh-Kincaid Grade Level – 0.6
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I also discovered a couple grammar errors and I am correcting them on the master. Chapter Six is set by segments and ready for working. Also, the chapter title word this time is ‘Transparency’ or I assume it is.

         Later in the afternoon. You are sitting in the shade of a single tree; the Honda is facing south on the east earth dam lot while Carol is taking her walk at Pine Hill Lakes Park – a clear and cool blue afternoon sky pervades. ‘Transparency’ hit you earlier while at the VOA Centre; out of the blue it was, interesting, eh? - Amorella

         1625 hours. The quiet allows a listening to the chirps of crickets within a hundred yards or so. Four children of various sizes playing tag or swinging near playground equipment with two early forties’ something parents observing with affectionate attachment. A few trees have frost’s first touch of red on this very peaceful sunny afternoon on the last official day of summer in the park, 2014. A few walkers (with dogs or without) are about. A few cars are scattered in the north lot sixty or seventy feet to my west.

         1639 hours. ‘Transparency’ (chapter word) appeared hovering in the center region of my brain. Consciousness surrounded and moved in to pluck the word up – upon the initial hovering the use of the word was immediate. It is interesting how these ‘creative’ aspects work from time to time. Carol returns. (1641)

         Carol is watching “The Good Wife”; this is after you both watched “Madam Secretary”. Curiosity got the better of you and you goggled ‘Great Merlyn’s Ghost – richard h. orndorff – ebook’. This is the first time and there are a few responses. You are delighted because this shows BookBaby ebook publishers did what they said they would do, put it on the Internet. – You are satisfied with their work. Supper after Carol’s show finishes. Later, dude. Post. - Amorella


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