Current location:	editing
Current mood:	grateful

Killing Characters
Working on chapter 71 this morning and closing in on the end. I kill a number of major characters here. At this point, one is down. Two to go. While writing the first draft, I didn't plan on killing character #2. But while in the scene, it felt so right, so I had to do it. I cried, too. Probably will again. This particular character represents something very major in my life--it's strange, but true. I wondered about the killing of that particular person the first time around, what it meant metaphorically. And now, I'll have to attend to it the second time around. It feels so physically tethered to my real life that I'm afraid to touch it. Sound strange?

Spent many hours weeding yesterday. (no, not drinking pina coladas and watching Miguel do it for me!) There is something cathartic about ripping out weeds, however. I needed to spend some aggression/anxiety I think.

I slept better last night, so I could get up and write this morning. I hope to keep up that trend.

Thanks to kenrand who offered to listen. It really helped.

Tonight, I register Orion in kindergarten! He's pretty proud about being five. Right now, he loves to use PAINT on the computer and can type in words (I help with spelling) and save his own work. The other day, when I was elsewhere in the house, he opened up a old drawing he called "Steps up to a window" so he could copy down the words himself to name a new drawing "Steps up to a window 2." He wrote in the title and saved this new drawing all by himself. After just watching me do it a few times.

Going to try to get out of the house today.