It was fun editing Six (with Seven) today. Written over a year ago, I’d forgotten the surreal aspects that the book took on at that time, dealing with a character’s memory, sex, and imagination as separate entities. I had fun with the arguments that they had among themselves and Philip K. Dick flavor infused in some of the dialogue and situations.
The character’s name is Madi (Madison) Handley. Because she’s a pirate, she modeled her memory after a pirate, Grutte Piers, and insists on having a parrot, J.R. As Handley’s existence streamed into my awareness, her name came from another blogger (J.R. Handley) and a barista (Madi), with the parrot named after J.R. Handley as well.
Her story is running in parallel to Pram’s terra-forming story, and I alternated between the two in the chapters in this section of the novel. I have a lot of affection for Pram and Handley, and love discovering their lives in space.
Coffee gone, and damn, I’m hungry. Time to stop writing editing like crazy, at least for today.
Michael Seidel, writer 
If you can manage to set down the editing long enough to eat – and not get food stains on paper, or take the chance of spilling all over the keyboard – then you’re a stronger man than I …
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LOL – No, I’m not stronger. I just stop and eat. Then I’m done for the day. I don’t stop to eat until I’m ravenous, though.
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