13/ So then I rewrite it. That's the second draft. Still garbage. Rewrite again. 3rd draft. Still garbage, but hints of acceptability. Ari 1 & 2 took 6 drafts.
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14/ In between all of that I generate spreadsheets to make sure that my thoughts on kinetic energy weapons, or transit times for Holmann transfer orbits, or Aldrin Cyclers, or whatever, are correct.
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15/ So, anyway, THAT is why I don't just dictate the novels as I'm welding in the workshop or weeding the vineyard.
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16/ Not in Ari 3 or 4. During the time that the book takes place, the Vatican is still deciding if Dogs have souls. We have multiple priests in 3 and 4 (one Jesuit, one Dominican, I think, one other) and two think the answer is "yes", but >>>https://twitter.com/Bound_Unicorn/status/1154497206596055040 …
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17/ That's the kind of thing that the Church needs to study for a century or so and consult the College of Cardinals. So book 4 will end with some suggestions as to the election of a new pope and demographics of cardinals, but no conclusion in the text of the book.
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19/ Anyway, I realize that my painfully autistic approach to writing results in excruciating slow results. And I feel bad about that. But in 50 yrs I'll be dead, someone else will own my farm, I'll have no kids. ...but my name will still be on these. So I try to do an ok job
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I love reading about the farm but will it be able to replace the second job? Or maybe it’s just more important, which it would be to me.
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Make enough money that you no longer use coding to cover the gap in expenses.
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Farm is a hobby; runs at a loss. Impossible to make as much per hour farming as coding.
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Ohhhhh! My bad. Well best of luck balancing it all
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