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Archived Messages from 8/13/01 to 8/16/01
Re the beginning of the fantasy, it is indeed a way of dealing with the death of my cousin. I am not sure the actual character will take on full characteristics and personality issues of Bud, but the broad outline lends itself to the story. I will probably work shop it first at a local writing group I have been scarce from for a couple of years, but plan to go to in preparation for possibly applying to attend next years Clarion West. We will see.
Fran and I went diving, first in a pool that went quite well. We were testing some of our equipment in preparation for the live aboard dive trip we will be doing in Fiji starting around September 13 and going through September 30. Our second attempt was at Mukilteo with drive suits, but after several snafus including Fran's tanking deciding to become dislodged from her BCD, her regulator seems to have malfunctioned and she was getting water in with each intake of air. We will be trying again this Thursday, hoping to give it a good try to get some more experience in before we head to the sof coral capital of the world and our first experience of drift diving.
At any rate, hope that my main computers is back, I have high speed internet access (dial up sucks big time)and I can begin working on the fantasy story again. I have the first opening prologue done. Still trying to decide if I am using a short story pacing or novel pacing. I tend towards the latter, but would prefer to encapsulate this story at around 15,000 words, no larger than 18,000. We will see. BTW, I got the address below wrong, it actually is Writers Cramp and the URL is http://www.forwriters.com/writerscramp.html and that is indeed the local group I used to attend here in Seattle.
Jack Beslanwitch http://www.forwriters.com/writerscramp.html
8-13-2001 4:00