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My carefully planned week is already coming adrift. Apparently the Transact contractors mucked up the cabling for a whole bunch of units, so the people who were to do my installation today have to talk to Transact and get the cabling redone. I ended up reading 150 pages of a review book and doing a bunch of housework at an hour I normally am sleeping. Who needs sleep, anyway?

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Today I have been thinking about the nature of world-construction for standard 3 volume Big Fat Fantasies. I am discovering patterns and trying to work out how those patterns fit with readers' love of BFF. My suspicion is that a lot of construction happens during the course of a trilogy and the reader is a tacit part of it, and builds up a loyalty to the series: they have seen the skeletal world in the beginning and the rich one at the end and so the reading creates a shared experience. Not all BFF fit this, of course, but enough to make it worth contemplating.

I guess I was getting tired of everyone round me trying to qualify writing as 'good' and 'bad' to determine why people read and why they develop strong loyalties, and wanted to explore some other reasons.