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I find myself drawn into the story, now that the stage is more than set, and the previous generation has all but died off. It's a tiny thrill to be so anxious over characters described in such a plain narrative style.

In my own writing I notice how I try to trim the deadwood more and more. Mostly because I've transitioned from young'n to adult, with responsibilities. Where I used to struggle for a Subj line in email, there's now almost always a purpose or topic for each one. Especially at work, I'll compose a couple of paragraphs, and upon re-read I find I can get the same information from a couple of sentences. This process, isn't really comparable to writing a novel, but in a way, I notice the clear, spare, straightforwardness in language has good in it, where before, I wanted more words wherever possible. I used to list possilities in threes at least, if not more, and sometimes I would struggle to come up with possibliity number 3, i.e. in this situation a person will do several things: think about it, write down his thoughts, and ... eliminate the outliers.

Over and out!