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i wrote 1,831 words this last hour just because i realized i haven't really worked on the book since tuesday. still struggling to bother with it. but today i found some small interesting things that might be worth salvaging: some pecked-over chickens in the hayloft, a lost glove in the street on the way to hazlitt's, an' learning that it's safe to fall down on the ice because there's going to be someone there to pick you up. small things/moments but hopefully i can use them as tiny analogies for the world in which this kids lives: a world of instability, uncertainty, shattered trust, loss, and a yearning for faith.

i've also finally (at long last) changed William Fletcher's name to Gwilym. but i think everyone still calls him William (and he's adopted that formally). i was reminded, writing to someone else about names and places and cultures and whatnot that this family is of Welsh-English extraction and that Lewis was named for his great uncle Llewelyn. i have considered changing Lewis's name formally for a long time, but the jury is still out. i think, no matter what, he will always be Charles Lewis and Lewis for short (he signs his name C. Lewis), but i am tempted to make his birth certificate read Charles Llewelyn Fletcher.

decisions, decisions.

i don't think it actually matters much in the great scheme of things. it will make it easier for people to find him after the war if he were to actually enlist as Llewelyn (that's my main consideration). i feel compelled to make a final decision, but have been endlessly putting it off (and i do mean endlessly ~ this has been turning in my head since i created the character nearly 18 years ago!)

i know: we'll have a poll ~ !

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