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little to say.

April 17, 2013 by L.S. Johnson

writing-wise, i am putting one foot in front of another with the wolves revision. some days a couple thousand words, some days a couple hundred, some days nothing.  dealing now with a lot of [find later] issues—naming some minor characters, finding locations that will become more relevant in malcolm but are alluded to now.  and trying to create a solid outline, because i have this dread of revising talassio, revising and researching and polishing until it shines . . . and then discovering that some small thread of that book never gets picked up again.

there are a lot of threads.

reading-wise, i am stuck in rousseau’s julie, which i am grimly marching through.  epistolary novels are not to my taste.  i have tried before, i made it through clarissa, i made it through les liaisons dangereuses.  but even the latter, though spicy and faster-paced, was difficult for me.  something about the structure unsettles me; it’s more unease than frustration.  i can’t put my finger on it . . . that i find both st. preux and julie irritating doesn’ t help.

but i care deeply about the last short story i wrote, and it references julie, so . . . alea iacta est? 😉

Filed Under: Process, Reading Tagged With: Clarissa, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Julie, les liaisons dangereuses, Malcolm, Talassio, The Hounds

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