Quoth the gripster:
Soat this point, if you're planning 100 pages a month, I'm already two
months ahead!
Yeesh, it's only day one and already somebody's bitching. ;)
Well, my thinking was that we should try to kinda sorta be reading the
same stuff at the same time so that the discussion wouldn't jump ahead
of anyone. But, as I say, this is all Totally Flexible. We can
adjust, adjust, OK? If anyone has a better idea on how this should
work, just let me know. I've never done this before -- I'm just
making it up as I go along.
Given all the characters and interrelated incidents spread through out
the book, how can one remember what was happening from month to month?
I'd have to finish the whole novel in less than a month for it to hang
together in any meaningful way.
Personally, I have an easier time remembering what happens in fiction
than what happens in real life, but that's me. As for you, I have
complete faith in the ability of your excellent brain to seize this
elusive book and its myriad characters firmly -- to grip it, one might
say, tightly in the folds of the grey matter and Not Let Go. Hang on,
grippy. It'll be meaningful. I promise. (I think.)
Already Porpentine, Godolphin, and the rest of the elder Stencil's
playmates are starting to merge. For some reason I can't get them to
congeal as separate mental constructs.
Actually, I have this problem, too. Fodder for discussion.
Chris