Made good progress this morning. Of course, in pondering a really lame piece of dialog, I was reminded I need to be able to defend why my words are appearing in this particular production. Even more critical, my words need to be able stand on their own for why they … Continue reading →
I Two-Day ordered some Fireworks-specific books that will hopefully keep Fireworks from bruising me further when I work on it this weekend. In the interim, I did some more work on PBOTL. I added 250 more words, most of which help complete the picture of what my characters are doing … Continue reading →
Making nice progress on PBOTL. Holly and I sprinted to get work done before I had to leave for my post op appointment this morning. I have to sit in on a teleconference for work this afternoon, so I might not get much more done today. The knee is doing … Continue reading →
I’m trying to lay out my new website design in Fireworks. I’ve done the lessons in the book for the sample website. I’m trying to adapt those lessons to what I want to do. They use round buttons with images overlaid. Cool, but not exactly what I want. I want … Continue reading →
Progressing nicely, I think. Tweaking here and there. There are some decent dialog passages. I finished at the point where I had a comment to myself that as a reader, I’d be screaming at the bear to get mad, so I’ll have to see about that. I added a section … Continue reading →
Today, I started the real work. The real rewriting. I’m on page 20 of 180. I’ve cut something like fifteen pages, yet I’ve added about 700 words (most of the page cutting came from formatting changes–which may still not be correct). I added a short scene and deleted a different … Continue reading →
PBOTL First Pass Revisions are complete. I’ve also constructed the timeline. Yes, I know some people do this first, but the Bear dictated to me, so I didn’t know the timeline until it was finished. Nine and half years of timeline it is, too. I’ve tried to fix a few … Continue reading →
I have just under 12k to go on this first pass. Then the real work begins. My time line is closer, but I still don’t have it fully captured. I have a little tweaking to do to make sure it’s correct. I should finish the first pass tomorrow and get … Continue reading →
Less than 100 pages to go on the first pass. Alas, I am not strictly following Holly’s One-Pass Revision. Or, perhaps I am, but I’m not good enough yet to do it in one-pass. (grin) I’m in the Manuscript Slog, but I need more practice to be able to handle … Continue reading →
Everything appears to have gone well. The anesthesiologist wanted to do general, so that’s what we went with. He promised happy drugs, and he delivered. I remember them wheeling me toward the operating room, but I never saw the place. Next thing I knew, I was waking up in recovery, … Continue reading →