Names redux, again
So I am looking through this old manuscript, written back before I knew much of anything but that I wanted to write. I like some parts. I love some parts. But the setting is crap--especially now--which is not so bad, as I know the setting I want to use now, and I'm certain it will work.

The trick is to tweak the stuff I mostly like, probably kill the stuff I love because it's probably crap--and put in plenty more NEW stuff that will all pull the thing together and let me find the ending that I couldn't find 10-odd years ago, which is why I stuffed the thing in a trunk in the first place. I tried to blow off the dust a couple of years ago, but various things (lack of serious commitment; car breaks down. Breaks down again. And again. And again; spouse laid off; urchin needs new cloths & shoes; we need insurance; spouse in hospital, etc, etc, etc. And then we moved....) became excuses to not write the book.

So. Now I will write the book. To hell with the unsold house back in Pepperell.

And that ornithopter article, which was due Friday is still isn't done, but will be Real Soon Now.