Can you say that without foreboding? I feel like I'm really getting into it: although it felt like I was re-treading the same ground yesterday, the truth is the writing's getting tighter and I'm still getting about 1100 done, plus research. I resolved the other night to write out my ideas just before I go to bed - it seems that after the first joint, I'm thrumming with them. And naturally forget them in the morning. I've done a bit of reading - the autobiography of the Mother (from the Aurobindo ashram in Pondicherry), bits of the Annie Besant autobiography, the usual research - books on eccentrics and Sydney history. I've ordered a book called Razorhurst about the gangwars in Darlinghurst at the time - I suspect it owes a bit to Blaikie. And I have those four books to do for the ALR.
The problem is I know I'm going to have to get rid of the Rocks and work out definitely whether Martha's a criminal with boho inclinations or a boho with criminal ones. I just can't work it out, and until I do, despite the word count being fine, the writing stutters a little. But if I leave Martha and Argyle for now, will I lose momentum? I've lost a book - Tiv Dreaming - which would give me a better idea of where to go. Martha's meant to be a mix of Tilly Devine, Kate Leigh and Dulcie Deamer - but I don't want her too similar to the Boy's mother (working name Elizabeth Braithwaite). I'll give it another go today - if I don't get any joy then I'll work a bit more on the framers while I research.
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