"CommComm" #6

The Winged Pennis

So, before we launch in on this section, I wanted to say that I’m working on a new story now, close to the end (I hope, maybe, but probably not, based on past experience) and had to laugh this morning as I was watching myself sling sections around and cut precious bits that had been around for months and word-process like a fiend (moving chunks of text to the junkyard at the end of the document, madly cross-collating between drafts) as I thought of how I would ever attempt to “explain” that process, which was happening all by feeling, no ongoing rationales or explanations-to-self, just a series of silent, almost guttural queries: “Would this go better here?”  “Where’s that one stupid bit about the frogs?”  “What if moved this to later, down there by the truck stuff?”

All of this to call attention, once again, to what a wooden and artificial thing this “explaining” I’m trying to do here re “CommComm” really is.

But…let’s carry on, shall we?