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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2005.05.24

I managed to spend two solid hours on my novel, today. I worked through one of the sections I hope will be funny (rather than unintentionally funny, as with the rest). It was a chapter on an extended office "working meeting" designed to depict many things: the main character's inability to just get along; the disjoint between worker bees and the real goings on in any organization; the dismal way in which things are communicated within organizations. It's also supposed to provide some comic relief, because the next (extensive) section is pretty dry.

I think it might need another read, still. But it's fun work, so I'm not complaining.

rand()m quote

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

—Voltaire