How do you know you which blues musician is dyslexic?

He's the one who went to the crossroads and sold his soul to Santa.

In other news.

I've got a rather large writing project going. I started it about a year ago at this time, and I got really rather far along into it (roughly 60-65,000 words). I took a couple of weeks off from it back in the fall (not intentionally, because work and life got in the way). I picked it back up at a later date and re-read what I'd written. I was a little discouraged.

I won't give you the plot details, though a couple of people that I've been talking to know what it concerns.

My problem was that when I re-read it, I noticed a couple of things.

Both are chronological in nature

Sub point A: I was having a little trouble with the speed with which things were unfolding. I want to slow the sumbitch down. I want what I'm writing to be creepy, but I feel like if it's constantly "rip-roaring," it doesn't accomplish what I want it to. Kind of like you need a long silence on a car ride before you scream "Boo!" at the person riding with you.

Sub point B: I have 2 major events in what you might call the second act. It might amount to what you'd call a climax of sorts. The two events happen at the same time. The problem? I realize that I had a character in both places at the same time. Why I didn't notice this at the time, I'm not sure. Except that I wrote each chain of events at two different times, and things got a bit muddled. Ultimately, it all means I gotta back up and re-drill.

I'm just rambling, but this is more to get my thoughts down on paper than it is anything.

See, Sunday was when I picked the sumbitch back up and decided that instead of leaving it as a pile of rubble, I was going to start over and make a house out of what material I have.

Wish me luck.