Today I took the plunge and made the philosophy wiki a fictional extension of The Myth of Merula. I will be writing in it as Alice Mountolive. This blog will be the only non-fictional part of the Dreamfishery.com Web Site. It’s very liberating. It’s not the first time I’ve considered doing this, but for some reason, something always held me back. Maybe it was only narrative conventions holding me back. I’m not sure what it was. I can think of no good reason not to make the whole Web Site fictional. But I can think of a lot of good reasons in favor of it. It’s more fun that way, it allows more freedom and possibility, and it enhances the story of The Myth of Merula. Anyway, being me is so dull and restricting sometimes.

I’m definitely not a confessional writer! Not much to confess these days, anyway, other than to say that I have only done prenatal yoga exercises twice during this whole Christmas break. Oh, and I told my husband to stop carrying our cat Marten to bed at night, because we need to wean him from our bed with a baby due to be here in few weeks. But then this morning, I carried Marten to bed. At times, I have considered somehow working pregnancy into the story, especially when I learned that a fetus goes through phases of development that resemble human evolution and that, when it is born, it essentially transitions from being an aquatic creature to living on land. It would just have been too weird, though. I didn’t want to mix up my feelings about my unborn child with my feelings about the story.