Still under the weather

Aug 29, 2005

Still sick. Better, but as usual for some sinus infections the little bugger has hung on for more than a week. I’m much better, but not well. I averaged about four pages a day last week, or a little over. Anyway I ended up with twenty-three pages by Friday’s end. I actual did rest, thank you very much, but the book is driving me crazy. It’s ready to go, and I’m too puny to finish it. But, actually, the forced rest has been useful. It’s forced me to make lots of notes by hand lying on my back on the couch, or in bed, and thinking out loud, so to speak. Bringing all the elements of the book together is requiring some interesting pre-planning. I’ll write a little bit that will actually be written in the book, then I’ll make a note, and write options for the next part of the scene. Then I’ll lay the notebook down, and try to decide which way the characters are going to jump. The scene includes Richard and Anita, along with a cast of about half a dozen, but a lot of those are bodyguards, so they don’t really count for dialogue and character development, not for this scene. Anyway, I have to somewhere and lay down for a few minutes. Then I’ll feel better, and hopefully be able to type some of my notes into actual pages. I also looked over the Micah edits,hopefully that will go out today. Alright, wishful thinking on my part, but hopefully tomorrow.