What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.
I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.
I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.