Think I have some of the basics for the next “Of the Wood” story going.  As with the last two stories, I’m going to jump ahead several years.  The primary protagonist this time is going to be young Daniel — just conceived at the end of “Forever of the Wood”

Xanbrina and Gary will be in their 60’s, Xankia and Steve will be pushing closer to 40 than 30.  I should imagine that you’ll probably meet Kia and Steve’s young ones, but they’re too young to feature much in the story considering the state of undress common to family gatherings.

Odds are that Kia’s little ( well, the oldest is 13, so not so little ) ones will be the focus of the following story after this one, marking the first shorter jump in time span.  We first met the elder Daniel at around five years old, so this story will have been following the family for more than 85 years when I finish the current tale.

I think that someone else associated with the younger Daniel is also going to have a larger role in this story than similar characters have in previous tales.  We’ll just have to see how it goes as the story congeals in my head.

That’s pretty much all I’ve done tonight with my writing.  I went through and read the series again, figured out how old everyone was going to be, and started meshing it with the ideas I tossed around in my head while at work today.

Other than that, I just uploaded my fifth LP and recorded the sixth to upload tomorrow.  Think I’m actually going to go to bed a little earlier tonight.  I was pretty beat down from staying up last night.