that when there was a technical problem, or a hint of one, in my November Novel, I spent pages watching the ship's engineer working through the possibilities, trying to figure out what was going on. In one case, when she'd had but one hour's sleep. I thought it would be useful for readers to have some inkling of how such things really work; and besides, when writing on a word budget like the NaNoWriMo thing, it was easy to write about it at some length.
Exploring dark places since last Thursday
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