Notes - 15 years of a lot of stuff / if and when / etc.

       You put yourself in a slump, boy, because you don’t feel you have any responsibilities. Basically, you don’t have any other than working on your exercises, staying alive, being pleasant and taking the time to listen to Carol, enjoying life, reading and writing, doing chores and running errands when needed and being a chauffer whenever possible. Does that sound about right? – Amorella

       1310 hours. I guess. I don’t think of them as responsibilities though – doing chores is one though.

       You had lunch at Penn Station and are presently at Kroger’s on Mason-Montgomery Road. Big night for a ball game – Bengals v. Steelers; and tomorrow you are supposed to get your first snowfall of the season, about an inch. – Amorella

       1437 hours. I think of the Bengals and Steelers rivalry (both river cities) like the Browns and Giants in the 1950’s. May the better team win. Snow tomorrow and then again on Tuesday. The birds are gathering around our place finally and eating away. They most know the forecast. I do plan to have the folders done for the first ten chapters of ‘The Dead’; ‘The Brothers’ and ‘Grandma’s Stories’. Then I can go through each grouped selection as if they were publishable stories on their own. Though, that would not work in context.

       Merlyn’s dreams beginning to end would be the same in any case, orndorff. – Amorella

       1450 hours. Originally, the context was one after the other.

       Perhaps that is beyond the reach of an average reader. – Amorella

       1452 hours. The point was to make the reader think.

       Few buy the books. – Amorella

       1453 hours. This would be a lot of work and for what?

       It is a lot of work anyway. You are free to re-set the stories. I would like them completed one way or the other though because you will feel better having accomplished what you set out to do – to be a writer. – Amorella

       1457 hours. You are right. The work would not be much different than what I am doing now. – Amorella

       It would not be any different into you worked on the final draft of each segment (now novel) – four novels rather than three, each could be read separately and those interested could analyze all four of Merlyn’s dream to see if there is a fifth dream built in. – Amorella

       1500 hours. I don’t think there is a fifth dream built in; what would it be? Sounds too much like wishful thinking to the likes of me.

       You are home from a trip to Graeter’s after the groceries were put away. – Amorella

       1632 hours. I could have an imaginary fifth dream by the Piper (to whom everyone has to pays); that would be funny.

       You are not taking any of this seriously. – Amorella

       1635 hours. I am mostly fiction, as always, Amorella, that’s the truth of it. Believing is not a part of the equation. I will not get into that. I talk to a pretend Angel – you. That is, you are pretend by my standards. What is more important to me is that you have been mostly consistent. Your writing worth to me is based on your consistency in helping me write better. Maybe you are right, I can try to write the story differently, that is come at the story differently but still essentially tell the same story. The five books (Stuck, Braided Dreams, Running Through, Merlyn’s Mind and Great Merlyn’s Ghost - One) I have publish all that are in Great Merlyn’s Ghost. Essentially, what I have to show for these efforts are fifteen years of published drafts.

       You have a lot of stuff in your head. Post. - Amorella

       1709 hours. I like the approach to the stories as I have placed them in GMG. They are cleaned up and shortened for clarity.

       They are less raw and passionate. – Amorella

       1810 hours. I have each chapter section in one of four consecutive documents.

       Once you complete book two in this same way, go back and do the same for your final copy for book one then tie the two sections for each together into one document. In the meantime, also continue with your original construction; keep it also. – Amorella

       1814 hours. You continue to make sense, Amorella. Nothing is lost in this, and perhaps further clarity and continuity will be gained. I do not know how to make this work rawer and more passionate.

       You will remember how if and when that time comes, boy. Post. - Amorella

       Time for bed. You had turkey soup for supper and watched NBC News, “Blue Bloods”, “Elementary” and “Modern Family” before turning on the Bengals-Steelers game, which is still playing. Post. – Amorella

       2258 hours. It is a wet and cool night with snow by morning. The Steelers are better. They deserve the win.