Happiness

 

Random quote of the day:

 

“Happiness is the temporary result of denying the knowledge one already has….Once one knows what one knows—once one knows the solution to his mysteries —happiness is beside the point. But in rare cases, something much better can bloom.”

 

—Sara Gran, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead

 

 

 

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Laurel and Hardy, Ariana Grande, or the Salvation Army Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

A question for my writer friends

 

In my current WIP I am weaving together new writing plus a number of short stories set in the same universe. Originally, I had planned to include a 31.5k novella* in this but I second-guessed myself.

“You know,” I told myself, “you could probably use this material for another novel centered around this character.”

So I removed that chunk from the novel.

But, you see, every second guess is worth a second second guess. It occurs to me that the future novel I was thinking of may never get written. Old time is a-flying…and I’m not. Not to mention that the information from that novella needed to go into this novel for the actions/motivations of the characters to make sense.

So I did this ham-handed non-POV retelling in the current novel that just isn’t going to work.

That novella, on the other hand, fits quite handily (ha) into the current work so I’m thinking that maybe I need to spend my coin here rather than save it for a rainy day that in drought-prone Southern California may never happen.

I know it’s not possible for anyone to make a fully informed opinion without reading the piece in question, but I’m wondering all the same if there’s any consensus of opinion on this?

 

 

*For those who may be reading this who have read some of my Dos Lunas pieces, the novella in question is Hortensia’s Man.