Sufficient Unto The Day
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rolanniTook muscle relaxants last night. Took muscle relaxants this morning. Slept most of the afternoon, which was not according to plan, but at least now I'm awake enough -- and relatively pain-free enough -- to think about those sample chapters.
In current events: After twelve years in the same house, we have a new address. The town has only been promising this for -- well, for the last twelve years. We were warned when we moved in that the 911 addresses were a hair's breadth from being installed. Guess the rabbit got loose. But that's all water under the bridge: At last we have a street address. Yes! The Rescue can find us in, ghodforbid, an emergency (note that the town Rescue knew exactly where we were all this time, but if they need to send in a team from one of the other towns, a street address will theoretically bring them right to our door). More to the point, FedEx Ground will not now be able to say that they can't deliver a package because we have an "illegal" address; they'll have to think of another excuse.
Of course, after ditzing around for twelve years, the town gives everyone touched by this miracle until June 1 to make the appropriate changes. I think the Town Manager must have been in publishing, before he came to Maine to rusticate...
One of the proposed book length projects looks like it will be go RSN, which is good news. Steve's already at work on it. As above, I need to do sample chapters for the second proposal -- and something that looks like a satisfying ending; I sorta ran out of steam about five-eights of the way through the summary. The problem with being an organic writer of character-driven stories is that, after a certain point, what's necessary is to kick the characters off a cliff and see if they grow wings. Hard to do in proposal -- at my stage of skill, dern near impossible to do in proposal. Until the characters are flying on their own, to stretch the metaphor to the breaking point, I really can't say in detail what they'll do. Endings are kind of a moving target -- always have been. Ah, well -- Mozart will think of something.
Haircuts on the agenda tomorrow (I wonder if I can get Barbara to cut off the whole unmanageable mess of it?), then a weekend of washing, drying and packing.
In current events: After twelve years in the same house, we have a new address. The town has only been promising this for -- well, for the last twelve years. We were warned when we moved in that the 911 addresses were a hair's breadth from being installed. Guess the rabbit got loose. But that's all water under the bridge: At last we have a street address. Yes! The Rescue can find us in, ghodforbid, an emergency (note that the town Rescue knew exactly where we were all this time, but if they need to send in a team from one of the other towns, a street address will theoretically bring them right to our door). More to the point, FedEx Ground will not now be able to say that they can't deliver a package because we have an "illegal" address; they'll have to think of another excuse.
Of course, after ditzing around for twelve years, the town gives everyone touched by this miracle until June 1 to make the appropriate changes. I think the Town Manager must have been in publishing, before he came to Maine to rusticate...
One of the proposed book length projects looks like it will be go RSN, which is good news. Steve's already at work on it. As above, I need to do sample chapters for the second proposal -- and something that looks like a satisfying ending; I sorta ran out of steam about five-eights of the way through the summary. The problem with being an organic writer of character-driven stories is that, after a certain point, what's necessary is to kick the characters off a cliff and see if they grow wings. Hard to do in proposal -- at my stage of skill, dern near impossible to do in proposal. Until the characters are flying on their own, to stretch the metaphor to the breaking point, I really can't say in detail what they'll do. Endings are kind of a moving target -- always have been. Ah, well -- Mozart will think of something.
Haircuts on the agenda tomorrow (I wonder if I can get Barbara to cut off the whole unmanageable mess of it?), then a weekend of washing, drying and packing.
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Sympathies
Date: 2004-05-21 07:35 am (UTC)I usually know where the book starts, one or two high points, and maybe the ending. Right now I am not positive where my ending is on the one I'm weaving in my head--ergo, frustration. It is nice to know I'm not the only one out there wobbling on the edge.
Sympathies on the back. Is this a chronic thing, or did you really upset it by gardening? (Of course, it could be "yes" for an answer, too...)
Re: Sympathies
Date: 2004-05-21 04:30 pm (UTC)We almost always start with the characters, and once we feel like we have a handle on them, we let them run. It then becomes a matter of typing fast enough to keep up.
Agent of Change had three possible endings for what would now be a Frighteningly Long Time. Fortunately, it was a first novel and we didn't know enough to worry about it. After all, Val Con and Miri had gotten us into it and by ghod they would get us out of it.
Problem is that writing on spec all those years has made me way too laid back about such minor things as endings. It'll all work out fine; I know it. Can't put that in a proposal, though.
Sympathies on the back. Is this a chronic thing, or did you really upset it by gardening?
Less chronic now than in past years. I was in a car crash back in my salad days and my back's been snarly ever since. I probably did do *some*thing upsetting in the garden. Wish I knew what it was so I could avoid doing it again...
Re: Sympathies
Date: 2004-05-23 11:27 pm (UTC)Not being a doctor, this is pure guesswork--but I assume you've checked the likely culprits. That leaves two major suspects--muscle spasms or myofascial stiffness/scar tissue. The second would probably require multiple sessions to vastly improve--the first could be greatly improved in a hour or so.
One of these days, we will overlap at a convention. And this can be minimal to no pain, even--I have learned a new method in the past year, and it is awesome for chronic back pain relief. Critz Release Technique is a Positional form of massage therapy, relaxing muscles in spasm and encouraging overstretched muscles to pull back into shape--hence balancing the body. Then you simply exercise to help keep it that way--nothing massive, simple stuff. I currently work on one woman with Lupus Arthritis, and she has two rods in her back from T8-L3. She's had good work done in the past--but this gets rid of the pain!
Plus--it's easy on my hands, too. Bonus....
I can do two hours in a day. We just need to make your reservation as soon as we know we're both going somewhere.
I'll be going somewhere someday....ArmadilloCon, definitely. But eventually back to World Fantasy again, when MM finally solidifies the contract.
In the meantime...tomorrow I'll write about the sinkhole in my yard that tried to eat a $165,000 concrete truck....