On The Road With Al and Ivy: Blog

"So she sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality —" - Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) The caged bird dreams of clouds.  - Japanese Proverb To believe in one’s dreams is to spend all of one’s life asleep.  - Chinese Proverb I began work on the final draft of the book last week. I had planned to do maybe three or four more revision passes, but realized over the past few weeks that it was ready to be finished. There were several issues with the earlier versions, the most serious was figuring out what the basic "story" was. The original structure was chronological, and that was the best way to get it all down. What made the revision passes difficult was that it wasn't how I wanted to tell the story, but was stuck in a linear structure. The original conception, which dated back to the 80s, as relate...