The Diagram Revealed
January 28, 2002
7:13 a.m.
So I'm done with the new stuff. Kind of. I had a very productive weekend, including a long stint Saturday night that rode me past midnight creating words ... when you're on a roll, you go with it, you know? I paid for it Sunday, though, as I could only write for thirty and forty-five minutes at a time without losing concentration. But I still managed nearly 3,000 words for the day. That's more a testament to the fact that I knew what I was doing than anything else, though. Ron's NAWticism for the day: Writing is a lot easier when you know what's supposed to happen. Of course, making sure you know what's supposed to happen is, in itself, a part of writing, but we're not going down that path today. The bottom line for me this weekend is that I'm through the new stuff with only a modicum of hand-waving in tight spots, all of which I'm convinced will polish up just fine during the last pass. I'll forge through to the end of the draft this week. This is good. Very good.   Since my context diagram brought a few comments, I thought I would post an uglified version of it here in hopes that it might help a few others (or at least convince a few folks that I'm not helplessly insane). The center bubble is the main character. The other bubbles are things and people that are directly affecting the main character. The lines connecting them (and their markings) are the problems those actors are creating, and therefore are the main character's chief motivators at that time of the story. The big squiggly line is a physical separator for the antagonists.  The scrawled text in the lower right is my final solution to the situation. Have a great day.  Daily Persistence is © Ron Collins |
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