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I'm actually, really, seriously, considering going back to it and finishing it. I've been enjoying reading the various drafts these past weeks, and I really like the idea of getting closure on this whole world that I created sixteen years ago, and has been haunting me ever since. I'd feel pretty sad if at the end of my life, I looked back and I had never finished the "Tim novels" as I call them. I don't really care about getting published, or even if anyone else reads them, I'd just like to reach some kind of closure.

Notes For a Future Novel was the project that gave rise to what I originally called the "Santa Zita Stories", which during dotcom became the "Santa Zita Quintet" which was supposed to look something like this:

Santa Zita Quintet

  •     A City On the Hill
  •     !989 A Novel
  •     The Deep & Savage Way
  •     Helen of Santa Zita
  •     tdp (Timothy Dylan Page)

When the idea of writing five books seemed too ambitious even to me, the plan turned into something like this:

Santa Zita Trilogy

    * A City On the Hill
    * 1989 A Novel
    * Volume III

Now my idea is to reintegrate what I've written for Helen of Santa Zita back into the Notes For a Future Novel draft from May 1993, the last draft before I abandoned it after my cross-country drive during summer 1993. Also add in some of the scenes from The Deep & Savage Way that I particularly enjoy. After that, continue writing from Part IV all the way to the end of the school year. I have oodles and scads of partially written scenes and plot notes for Notes For a Future Novel that I could use--not all of which is good, but there are some good ideas in there, and things I really wish I had written back in the day.

So the next step, is to put NFFN, HSZ and DSW together into one mass and see what's what. Then make a basic road map for the rest of the book, without getting too bogged down in details, because one of the strengths of NFFN, I think, was that I didn't play it that much, I just wrote and just let the writing guide me. It's okay to get a bit lost when writing a first draft.



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