… which means back to daily writing next week, with revisions of the thesis to take place in the fall. I want to get started on my second novel early next year. It will involve God-obsessed mathematicians living in Grand Rapids. I’m trying to teach myself advanced math in order to get ready. No kidding. This week I figured out how to define a midpoint using only Euclid’s first four postulates, and it just about broke my skull. It’s so much easier just to read Pynchon.
Anyway, with final revisions looming, expect to read lots of whining in this space about the length/difficulty/impossibility of finding a publisher. And also about math being cool and, um, hard.
Charles Seife’s “Zero, the Biography of a Dangerous Number” is a math-related book that goes down easy. I can’t wait to read your books!