Month: August 2002

  • Getting started late, a grateful mother

    Turned off the alarm and just got up when I woke up this morning. Becky and her boyfriend were in a car accident late last night. They’re both fine, and from what I know, the people in the other car are fine, too. But both cars were pretty much totalled. Matt went out and got…

  • More than I expected (with teaser from Gods Old and Dark)

    Got the outline finished and made coherent, and still had some time left over, so I did the first 1488 words of Chapter One, scene one — about eight and a half pages. I’ll still have about 500 words to do on the scene tomorrow, but I already know what I want to do with…

  • After a day off, things are clicking

    I got the whole story in order on Thursday, took Friday off, and am extending the outline just a bit today to eliminate a few inconsistencies — one of the problems with the notecard approach is that scenes as you first envision them frequently need a bit of reworking once they’re in the context of…

  • Typing done, and the magnificent F11 key

    Okay — the outline is typed in in by-character form. Now I need to start the cut-and-paste, drag-and-drop process of making it all fit into a single storyline. Don’t know why I couldn’t get through this by spreading the cards out on the floor. That usually works; it’s a visual process that almost always makes…

  • Typing in the cards, and Opera

    This morning I’m typing the notecards into an outline template, letting my mind relax and just waiting for the click that will give me the one thread that ties the whole thing together. I anticipate finding that, as long as I don’t look too hard. Meanwhile … did you know that in the latest version…

  • Writing, OpenOffice, Linux, Windows, and Wine

    My organization of the outline cards into some semblance of a coherent story continues. Because I wanted this to be my first non-windows book since I switched over from AmiPro, I went ahead and downloaded a Windows version of OpenOffice yesterday, since that’s what will be shipping with my version of Mandrake Linux, and installed…

  • Well, I got the index card work done

    I still haven’t put the thing into coherent order, and I suspect I’ll have to add a few scenes that are a bit more low-key to hold everything together. Nonetheless, the outline in bones form now exists. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • Writing, and Linux

    The writing did not go well yesterday, but some days are like that. I stalled out on Molly. Today, however, I worked through all of Molly’s story and most of Lauren’s, including developing Lauren’s major conflict, which will drive the rest of the book. Still have some work to do on notecards, but will have…

  • Heyr, Pete, and a touch of Lauren

    I got a lot done this morning, but not everything. Got eleven scenes for Heyr mapped out, and eleven for Pete, and one or two for Lauren. I’m getting a feel for the themes this book will explore, though I can’t really say that the main conflict has jelled for me completely yet — I’m…

  • More on notecards

    I’m back at work, and playing with my index cards again this morning. I’d like to have at least most of them filled out by the time I run out of work time today. I have Baanraak’s cards filled out already — by starting with the villain (or the one who’ll have actual scenes of…