Scatterbrain
June 7, 2001
6:58 a.m.
And here I figured that just the mere mention of Battlefield Earth in the journal of a WotFer would create a firestorm of controversy. All quiet on the BE front, though. [grin].   I think I'm actually through traveling for a short while. At least a couple weeks. This is very good. Perhaps I'll even get into a regular cycle again. Routine readers of this site will know that I strive to maintain a daily schedule to my life. I don't do this because I'm a particularly regimented person. Pretty much everyone who knows me understands that I'm not the most organized individual in most elements of my life. I myself have pondered why I do this on occasion. I generally answer that it makes me feel better--makes me feel like I'm more in control of my work. It also makes me more productive. At least I think so. Mostly, I guess, it makes it easier to measure myself. It's easy to look back on a two-hour chunk of time that you spend every day and decide if you got anything out of it. It's not so easy to determine the answer to the productivity question if you've got to patch the answer together with six or eight fifteen minute segments. Of course, I could just be making the whole thing up. Strange where your mind wanders when you're driving in a car for five hours at a shot. Still printing the novel out. Down to the last few chapters. Hard to believe it's actually taken me most of three (four if you count the non-productive yesterday) mornings just to get the danged manuscript printed out. Maybe I'll do a "Print" Dare next. I can just see it. A big banner over the top of the site--"10,000 words printed today." I'll call it Dare to be Courier. People will barrage me with e-mail telling me how it's not so good to print a novel so quickly, that the ink really needs time to set or else it will run when an editor picks it up. Can you tell I'm scatterbrained today? On the positive side, the manuscript is pretty much printed--it's a substantial weight sitting at the edge of my desk right now. My notes on additional bits I'm interested in adding are together. I'll get to the storyboard this weekend sometime. I'm figuring that I can have the second draft done sometime in July--probably late, due to a vacation we have scheduled. August to clean up the nits. That's the loose plan, anyway. Come Back Tomorrow. Maybe there will be a real entry, eh?  Daily Persistence is © Ron Collins |
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