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the book awakens

release the fourth story first

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Jim Dalling
Jun 30, 2023
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READ THE FOURTH DUDE…

Say that outloud.

Sound familiar?

Do it again. This time?

Pretend that you’re Sir. Alec Guinness. Sound ghostlike and whispy.

Sound familiar yet?

For those of you who get it, thank you.

For those of you who don’t?

I don’t have anything to say to you.

Do your homework.

Do the work.

There are some things in our culture everyone needs to know and if you do not know this, it’s not my problem.

I’m not here to EDUATE YOU IN THE WAYS OF THE FORCE

That’s not my job.

You do the work.

Anyway.

Book update!

It’s getting closer. I’ve made some edits, it’s getting smoothed out - the rough patches and such. Time for readers. I had some last time I thought that I had a draft like this one?

Only that draft? That one had too much artifice. It had a lot of construction, not a lot of play. It had a lot of meaning and story but not a lot of whimsy.

Worst of all?

I wasn’t fussy for how it sounded when I read it aloud.

I can’t really say what was wrong about it other than it was just wrong.

Putting it …

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