NOTE TO SELF:; NOVEL TOO COMPLICATED. HAVE NO IDEA WHERE STORY IS GOING. MUST KILL OFF SEVERAL BELOVED CHARACTERS AND ALLOW VILLAINS TO FLOURISH, THEN CREATE NEW CHARACTERS, GET READERS TO LIKE THEM, THEN KILL THOSE CHARACTERS OFF TOO, ALLOWING MORE VILLAINS TO FLOURISH. DO THIS FOR SEVERAL GIANT NOVELS. MAKE READERS WAIT FOR YEARS FOR THE NEXT INSTALMENT, WHILST STARTING INNUMERABLE SIDE-PROJECTS AND APPEARING AT AS MANY CONVENTIONS AS I CAN, FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN TO PISS PEOPLE OFF.