a nice saturday

Well, maybe only semi-accomplished at this point. Still a few more things to do.

Sank the doggy septic tank today. Still need to add enzymes and water and get it digesting, which will have to wait until nights creep above 40F--that's the temp below which the enzyme is inactivated. But the hole was dug, and I bought a small garden spade and an even smaller shovel to fill out the garden tool collection.

Grocery-shopped. Bought books. Bought ink for the all-in-one. Celebrated with a California Pizza Kitchen 5-cheese and tomato pizza and a glass of merlot.

Now I think I will try to write a bit. The start of Jani 5 was bothering me because I felt it was pretty dead. Too slow, with too much infodump. Then, last night the thought hit that instead of starting the book with a Jani pov chapter, I should start with a secondary POV. This is a new character, an idomeni who intends to cause a great deal of trouble. But that trouble leads to Jani, whom the idomeni is thinking about, so it will be a good way to shove in some info about Jani while setting the stage for what comes later and adding a sense of menace to the whole thing. Then the slower Jani chapters that follow will seem more calm-before-the-storm rather than when-will-this-story-get-started.

Beginnings are always the most difficult for me.

a nice saturday

Well, maybe only semi-accomplished at this point. Still a few more things to do.

Sank the doggy septic tank today. Still need to add enzymes and water and get it digesting, which will have to wait until nights creep above 40F--that's the temp below which the enzyme is inactivated. But the hole was dug, and I bought a small garden spade and an even smaller shovel to fill out the garden tool collection.

Grocery-shopped. Bought books. Bought ink for the all-in-one. Celebrated with a California Pizza Kitchen 5-cheese and tomato pizza and a glass of merlot.

Now I think I will try to write a bit. The start of Jani 5 was bothering me because I felt it was pretty dead. Too slow, with too much infodump. Then, last night the thought hit that instead of starting the book with a Jani pov chapter, I should start with a secondary POV. This is a new character, an idomeni who intends to cause a great deal of trouble. But that trouble leads to Jani, whom the idomeni is thinking about, so it will be a good way to shove in some info about Jani while setting the stage for what comes later and adding a sense of menace to the whole thing. Then the slower Jani chapters that follow will seem more calm-before-the-storm rather than when-will-this-story-get-started.

Beginnings are always the most difficult for me.