Jenny C. Shar looks in her research for Kammani Gula

Lani D. A scroll, right?

Jenny C. and recognizes the symbol on her bottle.

Anne S. I think she’d call them to her house. Her house is the temple, isn’t it (or used to be).

Jenny C. Nope, cuneiform tablet.
Jenny C. No scrolls in Mesopotamia.

Lani D. Yeah, and going to the step temple is going to be fun.

Jenny C. Her house is the top two layers of the ziggurat.

Lani D. Check. No scrolls.
Lani D. A stone wedding cake.

Jenny C. Clay tablets.

Anne S. You realize we have our own Booth cartoon?

Lani D. A square, stone wedding cake.

Jenny C. Right.
Jenny C. Which Booth cartoon?

Lani D. Booth cartoon?

Anne S. Lots of stairs.
Anne S. I’m going to scan it and upload it.

Jenny C. That’s Escher.
Jenny C. Isn’t it?
Jenny C. Booth is the nutso cats.

Lani D. I know Escher; I’ve seen his stairs. I don’t know Booth.

Anne S. No, I mean if you live in a step temple you’ll be climbing a lot of stairs.

Jenny C. And “write about dogs.”

Anne S. Forget Escher.

Jenny C. This is so a “write about dogs” book.

Lani D. Forgotten. See? I’m easy.

Jenny C. I’ll find that one and send it to you, Lani.

Anne S. Scan it and put it in our Google group.
Anne S. That’s what I’m going to do with my Booth cartoon.
Anne S. It’s our mantra.

Jenny C. Oh,yes.

Lani D. Hanging with you guys is such an education for me. I’m easily going to be 23% smarter when we’re done with this book.

Anne S. Everyone should know Booth

Lani D. I don’t know art at all.

Jenny C. The only one I can find is small. I’ll have to scan a bigger one in.
Jenny C. Booth isn’t art, he’s a New Yorker cartoonist. But he did some brilliant cartoons about writing.
Jenny C. So
Jenny C. Where were we?

Anne S. Booth isn’t art, except in the best sense of the word.

Lani D. Oh. Well, there you go. I don’t know cartoons, either.

Jenny C. They meet briefly at the end of the class in Shar’s POV.
Jenny C. They run into each other at the Jeff on Wednesday.
Jenny C. They meet again and sit together at the second class.

Anne S. How are we going to do this? I mean, once we get the story hammered out.

Lani D. Well - before the second class Shar calls them over to talk about the priestess thing, right?

Jenny C. They meet again at the Jeff–by arrangement?–for Jamie’s music on Friday and Abby brings baked goods.
Jenny C. I’m just trying to figure out the first act.
Jenny C. Okay, the first two acts.
Jenny C. help.
Jenny C. I’m lost.

Lani D. Jamie won’t be playing on Friday - I think Christopher should be the guy focus for that, because the icing draws him out.

Jenny C. When do they meet at Shar’s?
Jenny C. Wednesday night?

Lani D. Before the second class. Was the original plan. Up for debate.

Jenny C. Poetry readings on Friday?

Lani D. Thursday afternoon.

Jenny C. Thursday afternoon works for me.

Lani D. Sure. It can be anything, but Christopher needs to be the focus of that one, I think. Krissie? What do you think?

Anne S. I can work around whatever you guys come up with.

Jenny C. Does Christopher do poetry or fiction readings? Would that take him to the Jeff on Friday night?

Lani D. So - Shar calls them over, they find out they’re priestesses, they go to the class, get the second bottle of hooch.

Anne S. As long as I’m true to my characters I’m pretty flexible.

Jenny C. What does Christopher teach?

Anne S. I don’t think he’d do poetry or fiction readings. He’s a math prodigy.

Lani D. Christopher’s a math guy, right? Maybe he just pops in for coffee so he can stay up and solve some problems.

Jenny C. RIGHT.
Jenny C. math.
Jenny C. Is he helping Gracie figure out her mortgage?

Anne S. That makes sense
Anne S. Nope. He’s beyond mortgages.

Lani D. Gracie’s bad with math. But that makes him more of an accountant type.

Jenny C. Well, yeah, but she isn’t.

Anne S. He’s like John Nash or Will Hunting

Jenny C. Who would help somebody figure out a mortgage.
Jenny C. Probably by telling them all the theory behind it.

Anne S. gotta pee. BRB

Jenny C. Like the guy on Numb3rs. But I’m open.
Jenny C. Thank you for sharing.
Jenny C. I will upload a cartoon.

Lani D. Okay. I’m gonna get some tea. As long as we’re all off…

Anne S. Yes, like the guy on Numb3rs

Jenny C. Write About Dogs is now up on a page.

Anne S. He lives in his brain and trains his body to support his brain (hence the vegan and running)
Anne S. Cool. I have to reload my scanning software but tomorrow you’ll get another.

Jenny C. Most of them are on the net somewhere.

Anne S. Not my absolute favorite, which I will also upload because it’s my mantra.
Anne S. (Hit those keys).

Jenny C. What’s the one with nympho psycho whore?

Anne S. Oh, that’s a great one too.
Anne S. I have the first three books — I must have that somewhere.

Jenny C. I have a couple of them. I think I might have sliced up one of the books to frame them. His writers cartoons are the best.
Jenny C. Gotta tell you
Jenny C. I love Abby and the baked goods.

Anne S. Absolutely.
Anne S. Me too.

Jenny C. And I like it that Shar takes notes for so long.

Lani D. I’m sorry. I’m back.

Jenny C. So they meet Tuesday night, Wednesday night they run into each other at the Jeff, and Shar calls them altogehter before the meeting on Thursday and that’s the first TP.
Jenny C. So by then they’ll all have met the guys.

Anne S. That timeline works for me.

Jenny C. And Jamie and Daisy will have done the deed.

Lani D. Right.

Jenny C. But not Abby and Christopher?

Anne S. Nope, probably not that soon.

Jenny C. So that’s good.
Jenny C. Daisy and Jamie in Act One
Jenny C. Abby and Christopher in Act Two
Jenny C. And Shar and Sam in Act Three.
Jenny C. Shar can eat a lot while Daisy and Abby talk about sex.

Anne S. Kammi and her dogs in act 4

Jenny C. And make notes.

Anne S. <eg>

Lani D. LOL. Observation is key to understanding.

[to be continued]