I'll be writing more in a week or two

[cyrano]

The problem, he said, in a thoughtful manner, is that there are things one doesn't need to bother one's self with when a short story is just a short story. But when a short story wants to become... a somewhat longer story, then suddenly you have to concern yourself with all sorts of fiddly bits and details. Like, what is the relationship between the magical world and the mundane world. And I don't so much *care* about that relationship, because there's this *story* that wants telling, and it does keep nagging me. And so I think to myself, self, if I can tell this story then maybe it will go away and I can do something else. Like playing a few more games of Arcanom before bedtime. But things like that relationship have suddenly become *important* in the telling of the story and they're all underfoot and inconvenient.

I wasn't going to say anything, but there it is.