Working

Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, sign post

Nearly finished reading volume 6. On several occasions while editing I have had the thought, "Who wrote this?" So much has changed since five was written and six started, a lot of time has passed. Now, with the perspective of time, and having read through two volumes, I cannot avoid seeing that what I wrote is not what I ever would have said or thought about saying. That's another way of expressing how continually amazed I am at the differences between what we write and what we say. Who wrote those books? And not only five and six. All of them.What part of me wrote those books? I could expostulate on the circumstances of that time, but that would just be window dressing.

I know the books of this series will serve a purpose, for they are the stuff of life. Maybe I will find out who wrote them when work resumes on volume six.

Writing begins

Second ballon caught in profile at dawn over Sussaflei in Namibia

I started back to work, my real work, about ten days ago. Don't know exactly how it happened, or what changed, but something has been building now for several months. A great unrest within. What a treat to sit back down and start picking up the threads of The Alarai Chronicles saga. Originally I planned to drop back to volume four, read through it, move on to five, and then to six where I left off nearly a year ago and where the writing will begin again, but instead started reading five.

That was the right thing to do since a major shift in the flow of the story begins in book five. Or maybe I should say that a major plot theme ends with volume four, ripping open the veil of confidence in what is thought to be reality.

Everything is changing, and I am glad. Soon the real work of writing will begin, and true satisfaction.