Urgent Poll
Jun. 23rd, 2012 03:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_pretentiousI've been writing this novella about a professional astrologer for an insanely long time. My magnificent husband is giving me this weekend off from the kids so I can finish the manuscript, and I am so, so close. From the first, I've been trying to get the plot to line up in something like real time with the weeks in 2004 when the story happens. The effort has made my head explode.
Now I've discovered a major breakdown in the relationship between the story's chronology and the real-world astrological timing. It's a big screw-up, entirely my own error, and would probably add a couple of weeks, at least, to the time it takes me to finish the manuscript. I'm on the brink of throwing the ephemeris out the window and sticking with the sequence I've got. What kills me about that option is that it's possible to get the details right, and it's even possible for me to get the details right. I'm just not sure what the trade-offs would be in terms of time to completion or story logic if I do.
So, a poll:
[Poll #1849091]
Thanks, guys.
Now I've discovered a major breakdown in the relationship between the story's chronology and the real-world astrological timing. It's a big screw-up, entirely my own error, and would probably add a couple of weeks, at least, to the time it takes me to finish the manuscript. I'm on the brink of throwing the ephemeris out the window and sticking with the sequence I've got. What kills me about that option is that it's possible to get the details right, and it's even possible for me to get the details right. I'm just not sure what the trade-offs would be in terms of time to completion or story logic if I do.
So, a poll:
[Poll #1849091]
Thanks, guys.
