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Please stop conspiring to drive me mad.  For you shall surely win.

Yes.  Soon, you will crush my sanity like an overripe canteloupe, and when I go gibbering to the madhouse, wrapped in rags and possibly my own filth, I shall hear your heartless laughter in the incessant howling of the wind.

Spent some time today working on the plot for a new project. 

This time I’m trying to use notecards from beginning to end.  For other books and projects in the past, I’ve used whatever technique seemed best for whatever piece of the story I was thinking about at the time.  Milkweed started out on one giant whiteboard, and then I worked on notecards and scraps of paper as I got into the details of each book, act, and chapter.

So, the completely legitimate email I received today begins with this salutation:

IL TREGILLIS of U.S.A., Congratulations on Your Nomination to Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare

Finally!  Some validation.  It’s like the folks at Marquis Who’s Who have known me my entire life.

A couple of posts ago, I mentioned that I prefer to edit the old fashioned way, with pen and paper.

I’ve been doing quite a lot of that lately.  Enough that I used up one of my favorite editing pens this evening.  So I thought it would be fun to post some pictures of how the pages actually look once they’ve been savaged by the dreaded red ball point.  (Or, failing “fun”, at least it’s an easy blog post.)

Below the cut, photos of a work in progress.

In just a couple of weeks, I’ll be heading to Tempe for Leprecon 37.  

Why not consider a weekend trip to Arizona?  If you come to Leprecon, we can hang out!  When I’m not on programming.

Speaking of which, my schedule is below the cut.