Easier Than I Feared, And Still Taking Forever

[dr_pretentious]

I figured out how to fix the astrological problem in the Ria story. Eventually I found a very efficient way to do it--efficient in terms of preserving what worked in the story as written. The process of finding that efficient fix, however, required that I get neck-deep in the ephemeris and wallow around diagramming possible rearrangements of the plot to see if any new structures worked better than what I had. Was that efficient? Probably not, but at least I'm more confident that large swaths of the manuscript are sound.

Almost done, almost done. Every effing weekend I tell Dan how stunned I will be if it's not finished by Monday, and then every Monday I am stunned.

It's like the dissertation: there's no way of knowing when it will be over until after it ends.

Comments

[citabria]

Oh my, that not-done-yet thing sounds so much like the brief I just filed that it's almost scary. It was almost done on Friday -- yet somehow I spent 12 hours working on it yesterday, after putting in 6 or so hours on Saturday. If it didn't need to be the printer by 11am I'm positive I'd have been working on it all day today -- just adding that extra case, or tweaking that paragraph a bit.

And worse? I'd swear that I'm getting muscle cramps from typing and using the mouse so much over the past several days. ::sigh::

Oh -- wait -- yay on fixing the problem! ;)

[kistha.livejournal.com]

Can't wait to read it. :)

[showingup.livejournal.com]

And no-one else will ever know how long it took to craft it; it will be assumed to have flowed in one graceful sweep from your pen as one elegant, organic whole.

[mindseas.livejournal.com]

Yay for progress!

[sleepymaggie.livejournal.com]

Yay! I can't wait till it's available. I love these stories.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

ohmygodswantwantwant to read the story!!!!

ahem.

Sarah, I I will be totally delighted to read/buy/promote your story whenever it is written.

[laradionne.livejournal.com]

Huzzah for being able to figure out how to fix it! Huzzah for making progress! Can't wait until the Monday of the book being done finally arrives =)