T-Day
November 22, 2001
8:19 a.m.
Happy Thanksgiving.   The book proceeds well. Most of the major surgery required to latch my original work to where the thing is now going is complete, and I'm preparing to move into what will truly be "new" material. You do not understand how truly interwoven a book is until you begin to change a few pieces of one. Seriously. Rewriting a novel is like playing one of those Whack-a-Mole games where every time you get rid of one rodent, another pops its head out of the hole across the table. Still, it's a lot of fun, and I do get a certain sense of righteous fulfillment as I get everything going down the right path again. In my case, I've now got all the pieces in the first half of the book pointed in the direction I want them to point. I'll go back through the last sixty or eighty pages here pretty quick for continuity (plus I've got one scene in pseudocode that needs to be made real), then roll into creation. This means I'm about a day behind where I wanted to be, but that's never been a big deal for me. I set my goals very high, then applaud myself for getting as close to them as I can. Occasionally, I even hit one--which I would never have done if I didn't start with the goal that high. Yes, I admit I'm strange. Watching the world, I'm struck by how obviously this time period is exposing the ridiculous nature of extreme thinking. Republican, democrat, fundamentalist, secular. No one is "right," because no single comprehensive philosophy can be right in all situations. This holds for governments as well as for individual people. The thought that strikes me today is this: Would we have the same problem set if all government operations were performed with full public disclosure? Have a great day ...  Daily Persistence is © Ron Collins |
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