Somewhere amid all that paint paraphernalia is a tiny VW van with its first layer of deep turquoise paint that I want its color to be. It’s the kind of detailed work that goes well with listening to more of the Barack Obama/Bruce Springsteen Renegades podcasts. Bruce in real time was born one year earlier than my fictitious musician, and though in some ways, their makeup is alike, in others, they are very different. I like hearing both Obama’s and Springsteen’s perspectives on the times in which the Neverending Saga is set.
I’ve just done a massive rewrite of several chapters, added some chapters among them, and now am on my last rewrite of a chapter. Then it will be all new writing until Book 5 ends, I can get the heck out of 1974, and move on to completely new writing in Book 6. I’m so looking forward to that.