and write and read and...proofread! I was racing against a virulent lightning storm to press 'publish' on my tenth story of Stara Evropa, and though I had a word document of it saved, the formatting for this blog compelled an hour's worth of editing only in this vulnerable editing box, when Zues could have sent it to smitherines.
Now that the storm is over, I've looked to see that I lapsed four times on Derin's name, making her a Devin at spots. I might have done that also with Berkay, as his name is tougher. I should have named him Memhet.
While I managed it in two days, along with some work with the Cambridge project and the need to replace a leaking aquarium, this was not an easy story to draft. Pace is always half the struggle, and Katerina is my gadfly on feasibilities (I was going to have it a 'Turkish Ecumenical Youth Community' but that, by definition, could not enfranchise non-Christian denominations. And that wouldn't fit Istanbul very well.
Notice also that I'm being meta-symposiastic in presenting a symposium through this very symposium. We needn't read anything into that! But of all Stara Evropa stories, I'd appreciate feedback on this one and "Babi Leto, Babi Yar", which I hope to finish by summer's end.
And now the rain is falling gently, so I shall to sleep.
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