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My computer broke a while back, and so I was unable to write the book. I have it back now though, much earlier than I was supposed to. This pleases me.
However, I am having a problem. Any insights would be greatly appreciated. Brian if you ever sent a reply to my message to you, I did not get it because my power went out.
Here is the problem:
As many of you know, the book is set up as a kind of memoir, that uses the nights I smoked pot to tell the story. But a lot of the nights went like this: "Brian and I went to the spot; smoked; the end." How should I handle these nights in the narrative.
Possibilities I came up with:
1. I just edit them out completely as if they never happened.
2. I include them and risk boring redundancy. (This is really not an option.)
3. I do not include them in the greater narrative, but I do not change the numbering of the nights. For example, night 5 was really boring, so in the book the numbering goes from night 4 to night 6. Then I write a mini-essay type thing specifically addressing the gaps.
4. I include them, and use them to to elaborate and tie up information that was introduced on a pot-smoking night, but that may have been resolved at a differnet time.
I'm stuck. I hate getting stuck when I'm just barely out of the gate. Help please.
However, I am having a problem. Any insights would be greatly appreciated. Brian if you ever sent a reply to my message to you, I did not get it because my power went out.
Here is the problem:
As many of you know, the book is set up as a kind of memoir, that uses the nights I smoked pot to tell the story. But a lot of the nights went like this: "Brian and I went to the spot; smoked; the end." How should I handle these nights in the narrative.
Possibilities I came up with:
1. I just edit them out completely as if they never happened.
2. I include them and risk boring redundancy. (This is really not an option.)
3. I do not include them in the greater narrative, but I do not change the numbering of the nights. For example, night 5 was really boring, so in the book the numbering goes from night 4 to night 6. Then I write a mini-essay type thing specifically addressing the gaps.
4. I include them, and use them to to elaborate and tie up information that was introduced on a pot-smoking night, but that may have been resolved at a differnet time.
I'm stuck. I hate getting stuck when I'm just barely out of the gate. Help please.