Presidenting Is Hard Work

And so is writing. If I was getting anything else done, I could complain about how I don't have time to work on the writing, but that's not the case.

At the moment, Jim, Maya and Tali are at the Bronx Zoo, having a day off. It's Saturday after all. This is a difficult chapter to write, mostly because there is very little action. I'm having a lot of fun with Tali at the zoo, but the dialog b/t Maya and Jim is still a bit awkward. It's much easier for me to write from Jim's perspective than from Maya's, and although she can be taciturn she has to speak or the deeper themes can't be explained. It's only her reticence that keeps me from beating the reader over the head with them.

Spaz - I mean, Larry - is coming to dinner tomorrow. Allen is getting ready to work his way east, and Jessica's fate is still unknown. Agents Laramie and Blake know who they are looking for¹ - at least, they know his identity, they are just starting to know what kind of person he is. In the processes, we'll learn what kind of person each of them is. All the parallel lines are beginning to converge, and I think that we'll find that Douglas Adams was right: the universe is not merely curved, it is totally bent. I hope to have "Chapter 14 - Going To The Zoo" posted by Tuesday. It's a longish chapter. The next one is quite brief and will be up shortly after that.

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¹ Yeah, yeah. I know. "... for whom they are looking." Good grammar doesn't always make the best prose, and rarely works in poetry. At least I run spell check.