Finding Leverage
April 1, 2002
7:27 a.m.
So there's good news, good news, and well, not really bad news, but ... well, a guy can judge these things a lot of ways. First, the good news. I finished incorporating Lisa's copyedit Friday as planned. She did her usual spectacular job, and my work is far better for her involvement. Somewhere around page 300 or so, she asked me a question about an element of the timing between events, thereby leading to the second piece of good news. I spent almost all of Saturday listing events and time frames, and doing time dilation calculations. Is this fun, or what? Yes, I had gotten everything correct in the basic flow of things, but I had gotten them out of sync between locations (which is liable to happen when you're playing with relativity and distances measured in light years). Throughout the entire writing of this book, I have always had pain with the stuff from pages 200-300. The second piece of good news is that Lisa's comment combined with the work I did Saturday morning has given me a huge lever to apply to this section of the book, and I'm really excited about that. So this morning, I got to work on using that lever. The "not really bad" news? Well, given my thoughts last week, I had hoped to be done with the book by tomorrow or Wednesday. I had made that plan based on Lisa's initial comments, which when laid over my own concerns, gave me ideas that would take a day or two to incorporate. Now I think it'll be more like Friday or maybe Saturday. So the deadline slips again. I think it was Candas Dorsey who once said something like she had never really learned how to write a novel, but that she had learned how to write five different novels. I understand that comment better with each passing day. I'm learning, you see? I "generically" myself how to write a novel by using the Novel Dare technique. But I'm learning how to write this novel by taking it one step at a time. Does that make sense?   Have a great day.  Daily Persistence is © Ron Collins |
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