Two big things have happened this week that have signified to me a beginning of a new era. For me. A step-up in my writing process. An ascendance onto a new level (sounds grand, eh?). You know, like if you imagined climbing a mountain that had a series of staircases carved into it, each staircase ending in a big plat platform that you have to traverse to get to the next staircase. So when you start out, you think only about the steps, but when you get to the end of the first staircase, you realize what you've been climbing for the last four years is only one staircase. So that's where I am, on that first platform, looking up at the next staircase to climb.

Thing one.