Finishing a large project this week. And I’m at the bit at the end when I have to make sure all the pieces of the story are connected properly, everything is moving smoothly down a logical train, all the parts are spinning freely and all the arms and wheels are operating at the correct speeds to meet together and interlock cleanly at the end. And it’s the least interesting and most fraught part of any project. Writing the end end, when you have the final lines and scene, yes, that can be fun. Or maybe just satisfying. But all the other things? It’s like building a bridge by precisely throwing pieces of it at a gorge across several different points in time and hoping to hell you got every moment and trajectory right and it assembles itself just as the first car rolls on to it.
I wrote this for my newsletter back in March. I preserve it here. I was talking to a publisher friend about a project I was working on a few years ago, before my Brain Thing happened. The project was never …
And sometimes I think, or am occasionally told, that the mix of stuff on here is confusing. LTD reflects my interests, and my work, and my days. It has, in my conception, gone “full channel.” (Or, at least, nudged ever …
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