August 22, 1998
5:16 a.m.
The best laid plans, and all that stuff, you know? Thanks for all your e-mail on Lisa's little misadventure on the highway. Per Kris and Dean's advice, though, a writer is always supposed to make things get worse for their characters--so to play to that line of thinking, let me say that Lisa also brought back a great case of apparent food poisioning from Cincinnati, too. So we've spent the past few days nursing her along there.   With everything else going on, things have slowed a bit for me. My goal of Friday for completion of everything associated with the novel has slipped to Monday. The good news, though, is that everything seems back on track. The Epilogue is complete this morning. As is the outline, and the discussion of future books. Lisa's finished scanning the last four chapters (now that she's back to a fairly healthy state of being). Tomorrow I write letters and package the thing up. Monday I get to finish a short story I started before leaving for WorldCon. And the cycle continues. Just so you'll know, I'm taking another DHTML course--this one pertaining to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. So now that I'm starting to understand how to do things on both browsers, if you use one of the 4.x versions of either Netscape or IE, you'll soon begin seeing little snippets of stuff changing around here sometime soon. Yeah, yeah, yeah . . . I know I've promised that before. Actually, I'm getting the urge to take a stab at a new site. But that's not in the offing for a little while, regardless. < techno-snob > If you're not using one the newer browsers, why not? yeah, I know they take a while to download, and they use way more memory than you think they ought to. But they're just better. < /techno-snob > For the record, I also managed to cut the grass this morning, and play a game of chess with Brigid this afternoon. Tonight it's marbles.  Daily Persistence is © Ron Collins |
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"Writing is easy. You just stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." Harlan Ellison (I think) Today's quote is provided by a button sent to me by Mike Spencer, an old high school friend and new reader of daily persistence |
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