One of the reasons I have all these potential plot lines

is that I was forced,by the opportunity (I thought) of working with another writer as my editor, and that by meeting once a week he could teach me to write faster, and I could show him a thing or two about editing (which, since his books are basically very fine first drafts published on the net, 12, he has kind ignored literary crit., where as I have had the same edotor for 16 years and had to either listen to her or get cut off from her fine, fine... conversation and edifycatiom). This broke down when Jasonpettus.com decided that since the arbitrary ten years he had given himself to make it as a writer had passed, he was going to, like he had always planned, to move on to something else. I don't whether he is making the right decision or not anymore than he does.

So, since I ws trying to produce every week to give to Jason, I was forced to go ahead with a plot that should have remained in the maybe zone for a few more years. My favorite writing is character driven. In fact, the best part of the book so far has been the long character sketches that I wrote of each character. In this post modern, read it quick and get the guist world that most of my readers dwell in, no one is going to sit still for the kind of plotless interior landscapes I used in the last book in the first third. I realize this now. I wrote about a mercenary spy and stayed mostly with his intellectual angst, rather than going the Quentic Tarantino way...

Now, I know the theme of this book. Forge a moral life and do your best to live it, even if it does require a few changes here and there along the way. The artists think they are doing this on their website and with their paintings, and to some they are, in a word oriented way that will more help them act in the purely intellectual world than the real. They can hold their own talking about the finer aspects of nature vs nurture, yet can't really decide who to punch.


















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