Behind the Scenes

I've not been posting here--shame on me. I've not been writing either--shame on me. However, I was listening to the Slate Daily Podcast today and there was a discussion on a book about an explosion, a terrorist attack, on Wall Street in 1923. It occurred to me the Over the Moon novel could have a series of explosions in it, that Phani could be misdirecting Star's investigation. This would be very likely since one of Star's many character flaws is its inability to identify misdirection. I've also concluded I need to do a lot of work with Emily Dickinson. I have him as a comic. I had originally thought of him as an assassin and forgot it when I started writing. I'm wondering if he could be a private detective or former private detective and talk with Star about Star's difficulties in investigating Gwen Chen's death. Star has to be able toevaluate people's answers to questions and interpret evidence. This requires figuring out who is telling the truth, who is lying and who is keeping truths from Star. Star is so straight forward that figuring this out will take a lot of work on Star's part and may be even beyond its ccapabilities.

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Cory Doctorow wrote a great article called Writing in the Age of Distraction In it he says he writes using a text editor. 2 years ago I used a txt editor called Edsharp to write my nanowrimo novel. This year I used Jarte and wote in rtf format. I am shying away from Edsharp because it uses the Microsoft Word spellchecker and I want to be independent of Office. CD's oint is that the application itself is distracting. I quite agree. In a straight forward text editor I can just write. I figure rtf is about as universal as txt and I can always convert rtf to txt or even set Jarte to format in txt. In fact, I have Jarte as my default word processor for txt, rtf and doc files. Very quick. Very easy to use and its free and screen reader friendly.