forward movement!

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And the end of a chapter, and another plot point falls into place.

Now we just need to collect the protagonists, stick them into an intellectual debate, and defeat the big evil. Then everyone can have doughnuts and go home.

...with thorny bits along the way, but hey, what would a novel be if it didn't have thorny bits?

And after that, I get to stop thinking about this novel for a while and just write some other stuff, until I figure out what I'm doing with it enough to come back and rewrite it.

In the meantime, there may be a short story in my head. I am going to go and encourage it to come out.

a little light reading

At the moment, this is approximately my summer reading list:

1. Stephen King's Dark Tower series
2. The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down (for my college)
3. Tamora Pierce's books that I hadn't read yet--Bloodhound and Melting Stones
4. Linguistic Anthropology by Alessandro Duranti.

...I can't wait for college libraries. I have been finding the scraps and pieces of paper on which I have written titles of obscure academic books that sounded cool over the past year or so and searching for the books on my college's library system website. So far they have all either been there, or been very close.

Unfortunately, I am pretty sure that they won't let me just live in the library for a couple of weeks at the beginning of the term, which is the only downside that I can see.