and, no, that's not What She Said.
But when the plot took a different turn, I made sure that most of that stuff would be safe somewhere. As we novelists do. (I can say this...check that out. I think it fits together, and mostly, is not just a pastiche of other things I've read and care about, even if it still owes a lot to some of them.)
I am a little concerned that an abled audience might find it slightly nuts, so I haven't revised my whole self-image yet...possibly regrettably. But I'm going ahead, because it's not like I have tons of marketable, mainstream plot ideas, but went with the wacky ones cause success is bourgeois...it's being weird is how I know I can do it, not how I know if anyone will ever care!
Maybe that's why I have you. Not that we've *had* each other.