HB 2 Me, and Progress Report: Fast Draft, Day Two

[rj_anderson]

I got a bicycle for my birthday! A shiny new bicycle from my husband, who is wise in the ways of cycling! Yay! I think this may be the first new bike I've had in my life. And it's certainly the first one I've owned in over fifteen years. *huggles it*

My other birthday present: spring weather! It was positively mild today, and the snowbanks are rapidly shrinking. Dare I hope that by next week they will be gone?

In other news, I fail at writing today -- only 572 words so far. But my head feels like it has been stuffed with cotton wool, and I just can't seem to get my thoughts to cohere. So I have been using the time to do character maps, timelines, and other useful things. At least that will keep me from feeling completely unproductive.

It's embarrassing to admit how hard I have to think to do a timeline, though. I'm constantly counting things on my fingers with my tongue stuck out one side of my mouth, trying to figure out how much time has passed between on event and another -- and even after I've done my best, I'm sure I've got it wrong. Why do numbers hate me so?

I also fail at intuition. I really thought that by now I would have some word from Agent E. about Knife. However, no news is at least potentially good news, right?

Comments

[sunsethill.livejournal.com]

Oh, a big Happy Birthday to you. And I hope you hear soon. My fantasy loving son and daughter want to know when they can read your book!

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday! And many happy returns of the day, too.

Oh dear, timelines...I'm exactly the same, I have to keep double-checking and redoing my math.

[kerravonsen]

There's got to be some easier way... like a GANTT chart or something.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you're measuring time in days or years, but would it help to get a blank calendar and write story events into it? If you need to track years, you could make some sort of form that measures years rather than days.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Yeah -- the problem is that I'm charting events over a twenty-year span of time (most of these are offscreen in the book, but it helps me to know when they happened) so the calendar option isn't that useful, alas.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Not even one with twenty rows for years and 12 columns for months? Ah, well, I'm sure you'll think of something.

Anyway, I meant to say, Happy Birthday! May you have a productive year, and grow lots.

[kerravonsen]

Happy birthday!

[robinellen.livejournal.com]

I *hope* no news is good news :)

DH got me a bike a couple years ago for my b-day...I've ridden it only a handful of times since then -- but it's hard to ride when you've got little kids. D can ride his own bike now, but E can't even ride a trike, even though D was onto a large trike at her age ;)

[mary-j-59.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday1 And I've got my fingers crossed for Knife as well.

[cryptile.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy something something something CAKE!!1
Hope the book deal goes through!

[lydaclunas.livejournal.com]

Happy (belated) birthday!!

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

Another Happy Belated Birthday from me too!

[npkedit.livejournal.com]

A belated happy birthday. Sounds like it was a pretty good one.

[sannalim.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday, Rebecca!

What an awesome birthday present!