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Working on Merran's next chapter.  I spend hours catching up with stuff, another hour or so on how I'm going to do this or that bit that I haven't done before, then I spend a couple more hours getting names that feel right, and I have an hour or two before I'm falling over for want of sleep.

But soon.  Not quite Real Soon Now, but Soon.

On the sound of names and other words:

Read these aloud and let the shape of the words shape your voice.

No, John Dickson Carr, who also wrote as Carter Dickson.  His best?  Open to taste, of course, but I'd suggest =The Sleeping Sphinx= (Gideon Fell), =The Lost Gallows= (Henri Bencolin), and =She Died a Lady= (Sir Henry Merrivale).

My favorites wouldn't fit the bill.  Offhand, EQ's =Cat of Many Tails= and maybe =The Player on the Other Side=.  Jane Haddam's =Precious Blood= might fit, and actually is a favorite.   Hmm, need to think a bit more.

"The trick is to commit crimes so confusing that the police are embarrassed to report them."  Aubrey, in a long-ago Something Positive cartoon.

That cartoon aimed originally for a certain kind of moral gross-out, beginning with the first page.  It wove in and out of more serious stuff.  (something positive.net, and I warned you.  That assuredly means you, K.)

Topic drift?

Book 2 of The Sorcerers Progress, Earth by Fire: https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/conten … /version/0 .  Looks like it's published everywhere it needs to be

It could also be a u-shaped arc rather than a geometric straight line.

Thppfft.

Anyway I have a chapter up.  It's not in the main storyline, but it's a diversion of sorts and it introduces a character.  And a legend of sorts: Count Hulhauzen Lundersot.  But don't expect too much of him.

Wa'tcher beef?

Dirk,
May be relevant: https://youtu.be/BymDPZ7TyNM . Start around minute 26 and give it at least 5 minutes.

It seems to pick random words instead of using the input I gave it.