Unsteady Back On My Feet

To celebrate the story posting yesterday I wrote 195 words of  the much neglected Sparkle. That may not be much but it is more attention than it has had in half a year. Unfortunately when I checked what I had already written I found the new scene in conflict with an earlier one so I must now either scrap one, blend the two at either occurrence  or do something else. I think I know the right choice and only love of my own prose and lack of anything to replace it with (plus more pressing writing concerns) is keeping me from doing it.

I am, haha, a little very tired right now and do not quite know what I am saying but I do remember the main reason I brought all that up was to say that also when reviewing what was I noticed my default voice seems to be a sort of embedded third person which may be a close cousin of first person, another contender for the coveted default voice prize. Please do not attempt to read the previous sentence aloud. This embedded third person is rather similar to the limited third person perspective except the character's opinions, perceptions, etc. are embedded in the text in such a way that they may be mistaken for fact.

This may be the nonsense talking. Certainly I am tired enough not to trust my previous inclination to post the fragment of Sparkle that is likely up for deletion. Like sex, tiredness is a state in which potentially regrettable decisions and statements are to be avoided.

Finishing note: Since posting Black Riders yesterday I am now committed to finishing the second part of the story within two weeks (and a third part two weeks after that - epic fantasies always come in trilogies). Today I made a start on this by cutting 64 words from what I had written 4-5 years ago. Tomorrow Project: New Words begins.

I thank you [Bow, left; bow, right; curtsey, centre; exit]

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Autism Diva, she is nearly always worth your time.

From a post I shall call First:

Autism Diva is happy to see some excellent advocacy being done by Down syndrome people here in the United States. For some reason there isn't a "Down syndrome Speaks" organization wherein a representative of the organization talks about thinking about driving off a bridge with her Down's child, but thinking better of it because there's a normal child at home. No, for that you need to go visit the Autism Speaks website and watch the "Autism Every Day" video they are so proud of, or better yet, this critique of that video."

From a post I shall call Second:

"How angry is Giuseppe allowed to get for being shoved into a wall at school for the 80th time? How testy is Ariadne allowed to be when she's been tripped for 40th time in gym class? Does any of this come into the picture when the "trouble-making Asperger's kid" gets hauled off to the Judge Rotenberg Center to be shocked into submission? Is further tormenting a child, this time in a clinical setting, really the best way to deal with "behavioral" fall-out that likely is the result of being tormented for years?"