I finally opened yesterday’s mail and it was NOT a friggin’ COVID test! YAY!! I feel like I’m 10 years old again and it feels great! Author cards and everything! I wonder if they’re anything like Whacky Packs. I wonder if there’s gum inside. I wonder if the authors have haughtily arched eyebrows or big crusty teeth?!
Yesterday I slogged and skimmed through the Middle Ages. My character Giselle should be able to learn to read because her dad is very progressive and with the decline of the feudal system and the increase in capitalistic town wealth which benefited royal coffers, the time was favoring individual endeavor to some extent. Good King Louis the IX had helped start the Sorbonne when he heard some whining about poor kids not being able to become doctors. So I don’t see why, as a vintner’s daughter, Giselle could’t learn to read. So, we got that taken care of. Now. Does the plot require her to read? I bet I could think of a great reason for her to read. It’ll come to me. If I could just work Wacky Packs in somehow. That would be fun! And easy. This book goes back and forth between contemporary time and 15c cuz, baby, it’s about reincarnation. I can do WHATEVER I WANT!!!!!
Phoebe Wilcox, Writing Like the Deadline is Death 