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Last weekend was Easter, and I wasn’t able to get a sticky up. I apologize. This weekend’s sticky comes from a National Geographic article arguing that the water stored in dams and reservoirs is keeping sea levels from rising at the normal rate. This, in turn, is causing faulty data about the actual amount of water available to raise the sea levels. Since much of the world has stopped building these huge dams and reservoirs the sea level will start rising faster now, and may end up rising twice as much as originally anticipated.
What does this have to do with Sticky Note Stories, you ask? After Ancient is a story about sea levels rising 1000ft, and while I know this isn’t possible, I am always looking for scientific facts and data that will back up a greater-than-predicted sea-level rise. Even with this data the sea levels will even out at 40ft higher than normal, which is a long cry from 1000ft, but every little bit helps.
Forgive me for not getting this up yesterday. I was in the process of extirpating all of my insides via my throat and couldn’t find time to remove myself from the bathroom and make it into the computer room. And speaking of feeling as if you are going to die all day, we have another sticky from After Ancient! Conveniently from the part of the story where Lizzie tries to die (and yes, she does try to extirpate her insides as well, starting with her lungs – she has TB). And as you can see, even when I’m writing the stickies, which are the first first draft, I still decide to edit a bit on the way, finding better words to use and making sure to not confuse people with random “she”s that don’t point to any particular character. By the end of the scene Meara has finally come around to prayer, although she’s screaming it, and I won’t tell you if her prayers are answered or not. For that you’re going to have to read the new excerpt up on www.stickynotestories.com 
This is a fun sticky with two different stories on it. The top half of the sticky is talking about Lane’s Girl, where I’ve been trying to decide where to start. I thought of writing the first scene where Rebecca dies as the prologue, and then jumping back to tell the story of her and Lane as young apprentices instead of the current version which is done half in flashbacks and may be confusing. I wrote this sticky about a year ago, and I still haven’t decided which I prefer. But in the meantime I’m writing all of the history so that if I do decide to put it all in I have it all written up.
The second half of the sticky is from After Ancient – another argument between Dr. Meara and impatient Lizzie, who didn’t listen to her doctor’s good advice from last week’s sticky.
Today we are really mixing it up. Today we get a sticky note from After Ancient – 07’s disaster of a Nano novel. I went into this one with only a short blurb about the world and a vague idea of a train wreck, a bad guy modeled after someone I worked with, a doctor, and a sick girl. At one point after the train wreck, Meara (the doctor), Lizzie (the sick girl), and Tim (the other train-wreck survivor) find an abandoned ski resort, and find a group of people living there who don’t speak their language. But as Lizzie finds out, everyone speaks the language of love, and her broken ribs and TB don’t seem to be that big of a problem in that language. Of course, Dr. Meara doesn’t think this is a good idea, and says so – loudly and numerous times.
Do I need to point out to you that Lizzie doesn’t often listen to her doctor’s good advice?
