Well, a big milestone in Black Hole Son. I’ve got Character B’s scenes mapped out from start to finish, meaning I know how much longer it’ll be before I’m done with the main draft, in terms of what I’ve got left to write. I’ve also got a vague placement of the scenes, and in what order they’ll go. It’s rough, it’s not perfect, and I’m having a devil of a time placing some things so the pacing’s right. The problem is one character’s day may be longer than another character’s. But that’s not something I should worry about now. I need to get words on paper, not plan the whole…

Well, Dumbledore is gay. Great, that ruins the other six Harry Potter books that I haven’t read yet. I’ll tell you, he doesn’t seem gay to me. And it irritates me that Rowling decided to make this big announcement, because that’s telling us how to interpret the characters. It totally changes his character, and frankly, it’s largely irrelevant because Dumbledore is not supposed to have a sexual life. He’s the father figure/leader for Harry, and his sexual preference is, at least, irrelevant, and, at most, nothing we want to know about. If it wasn’t obvious that Dumbledore was gay in the books or movies, it shouldn’t be obvious by the…