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It’s strange sometimes, how you can feel something inside- some plot or character that wants to come out- and yet you can’t summon up the energy to birth it. I suppose that it’s an effect of a sort of lethargy of the brain. It’s like the disk that just won’t spin up to full speed, but instead goes whrrr-chnkk, spinning up and then dropping RPM. It’s the sort of thinking that requires a great amount of energy but really creates no result. I have just enough energy to think and write this. There isn’t enough energy to study, and I can’t quite summon up the motivation to do any “important” writing. I need to work on Overture 02, on Angelo or Cassandra, or even the editing work on A Ways From Nowhere. I think that I finally have a way to split the 187,000 word monstrosity into about 5 smaller books. It’s sort of a young adult book, anyway. Only Rowling can make a book that large and pull it off, and Alandrus is definitely no Potter child. Aargh. I have the first little bit of Closer To Nowhere written too, and I can’t even summon up the energy to transcribe it from the little Moleskine notebook. I think that was the thing that kept me sane through the NOLS trip- being able to write something long, with my typical over-dense prose. That, and reading what I’d written to the group, 10 people stuffed into a little tent that’s supposed to fit 4 uncomfortably. They loved Alandrus, which made it even better. I suppose that some time I have to e-mail them the edited versions of AWFN. That’s the next step for Alandrus, is finding out whether people like the shortened “5 books” versions, or the whole “big honking book.” I need readers. Volunteers can apply in person. Compensation will be arranged, probably in the form of a “thank you” and getting to read some very long winded fiction about a very improbable series of events. Summary to follow, whenever I can get some more energy.