Have reached the stage of going sentence-by-sentence, changing many three times before deciding to leave them as they originally stood and muttering curses at Past Me for the sheer number of notes in brackets I left for the revision pass.
I guess I'm going to have to let this serial be as long as it wants, and stop worrying about the problems in publishing it later, if indeed I decide to do so.
(She says, at 96k words, with the entire last quarter of the damn thing to write...)
"Overall, the available evidence indicates that the Internet can produce both acute and sustained alterations in each of these areas of cognition, which may be reflected in changes in the brain." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6502424/
Morning Walk Report: Crows feasting on drowned earthworms, feral rabbits very aware Boxnoggin is leashed, Boxnoggin himself wishing for more sniffing time in the latter half of walkies, but there were Things To Do at home.
The morning's run, fueled by irritation, turned in a really good time. Mileage has been slightly bumped so I took it easy, but apparently vexation makes me swift. Rain meant nobody on the streets, though plenty of oddly behaving cars--extra caution was called for.
Ring the bells and pass the buttered ammunition, the revise of CHAINED KNIGHT is finished and formatted for copyedits--which will happen in June or so, I think.
I did not expect the last five chapters to go so smoothly, but they did. Whew.
From the article linked above: “Then there is the fact that if I was attacked by a bear, no one would tell me I was making it up. I wouldn’t be asked what I was wearing, if I was drunk, or what I had done to provoke the bear. It wouldn’t matter if I had seen the bear before in the past, or if I am the kind of woman who likes seeing a lot of bears.”
"No wonder 82% of K-12 teachers think the educational system has gotten worse over the last five years — and 53% think it will be even worse in five years. Those are the stats of a profession on fire." https://annehelen.substack.com/p/when-your-profession-is-on-fire