Day Three: Tangled Plots, Fan Squee, Scene One Revised, Scene Two
Yep, busy day.
Bob and I campfired and discovered that our plots had a few places where they didn’t mesh. I could tell he wanted to beat me senseless with my new keyboard, but he’s out on Whidbey so he had to content himself with terseness. Since his usual mode of expression is terse, it lacked impact, but we arrived as some uneasy compromises. A lot of what he said made sense while screwing up my plot, but “makes sense” is the trump card; after he showed me why some of the things I wanted to happen couldn’t happen logically, I caved. And he did the same for me. Compromise: the act that leaves nobody happy but everybody resigned. We’re meeting again on Thursday, only at 5 from now on so that Bob can have mornings to work. I think that puts him in Campfire at 2. And it gives me the whole day to do things like go buy dog food. Which I must do very shortly here.
So now I have to go back and rewrite Scene One again which is okay because I know how to do it. And then I have to write Scene Two.
But first I have to do a Fan Squee. Carolyn Christmas e-mailed me on Ravelry and said she was a fan! Which is so great because I love her patterns; in fact she e-mailed me because I was making her cupcake baby hat over and over. The woman is a goddess in the world of crochet. So that’s left me chuffed, I must say.
And now back to the keyboard. Which now has the command key in the right place, thank you, Deb!
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Scene One revised but now it really sucks. It’ll have to do as a placeholder until I get M. I.’s voice in my head and settle into the book a little more. And I have the first rough of Scene Three which also sucks but I figured out something very cool writing it, so I’m happy.
Onward and upward.
Nothing but good time ahead?
Glad to have helped. I’ve gotten in the habit of checking specs as I have to support various software and hardware even though in most cases, I don’t have the equipment or access to. Kind of like the iPhone I’m going to have to support. I think I should be given one to properly support the thing. But my dreams don’t even include that. If you ever need a keyboard to travel to Whidbey to use as a compromise inducer, let me know. I’ve got about 10 dead ones in my office. I’d be glad to donate them. I’ll offer the extraneous mouse pads to Bob. Gotta be fair.
LOL - it lacked impact.
God I love this blog…
Sounds like the Wild Ride is getting a good start. Why yes, we are waiting very impatiently; but we promise not to nag. Too much.
Gosh, Jenny, whatever has inspired you to crochet baby hats? Gee, that’s a puzzler. [insert eye roll here] So how many does Callie have now?
I love Ravelry, maybe a little too much. Way too many tempting patterns and ideas, far too little time in which to do them. And I just ordered the small cotton fiber tote which is back in stock.
Compromise is good.
Don’t you hate when they’re right? You have no reason to argue senselessly and be offended. But getting the book written is good recompense.
All the best people are on Ravelry.
Wait…you’re on Ravelry?! REALLY?! I don’t know why this surprises me. My worlds are colliding, and in a good way. And for those of you around, I’m FishWithSticks.
And I get the Fan Squee over knitting/crochet stuff. I made it on the Yarn Harlot’s blog and I was so excited I kept going back and checkig it out. And considering what a HORRIBLE picture it was of me, that’s saying something. LOLOLOL.
You’re on Ravelry!?! (runs off to Ravelry to search…)
There you are, hiding in plain sight. Is Molly on Rav as well? I’m pretty sure I saw her a while back.
So this is Deb:
http://icanhascheezburger.wordpress.com/files/2007/06/want.jpg
Can I just say that I heart you. You write the books I can’t put down and you crochet as well. You love Buffy and hate the way they screwed up Cordelia.
I can’t wait for your next books. I love your work alone, with Bob or with Lani, Anne and Eileen.
Yes, this is random I just check into your blog randomly when I check out your WIPs.
ravelry, arghink.com, cherry forums, all the best stuff is at my finger tips if i just remember to log onto the computer. once the construction stops at my house i’ll get back online. i can’t wait to get caught up and check everything out. this is why blogs must continue and why it’s all important. thanks.