Oh my goodness, the discussions have been intense.
I mean, we are getting LOTS figured out, about my whole witch-world…yeah, of course, things that should have been figured out years ago. But they weren’t, not at this level. We’ve been discussing issues and creating backstories that won’t appear in the book–any of the books–well, not overtly, anyway. It is the hope that they will underpin everything in all four books, and make them hold together much more coherently.
It is the hope.
Anyway, we’re mostly through the deep backstory talks. Tomorrow morning we start on the characters. Then maybe tomorrow afternoon, we’ll get to the novel itself. Mark has to go back to Seattle Tuesday morning at the latest…so we’d really better make a lot of progress tomorrow.
I am so tired. This is truly exhausting work–it’s great, but exhausting. I keep declaring breaks, so my head doesn’t explode. (And breaks can include swimming, and gardening, anything physical–just don’t make me think any more!)