gillpolack @ 2015-08-15T13:07:00
The person who decided the best way to persuade me to donate to charity was by cold-calling early on a Saturday morning was not very bright. They woke me up, and I'd only managed a few hours sleep because yesterday was curious. I'm afraid I grumped at them (teacher voice possibly came into it - I was too tired to know) until they went away. Then I went back to bed and slept off some of the aches.
Chapter Three isn't final, but I've sorted out the biggest of the problems and what it needs now is a close re-read, which I'll do when I do the same to the first two chapters. I wanted to get Chapter Four to the same state by today, but a migraine last night made it not quite possible, so that's today's goal. I'm starting it all very late, because a migraine is a migraine is a migraine and after a while into it I wasn't doing useful work and it was stupid to even try. I'm about 25% in, though. And I've started looking ahead at what needs doing for Chapters Five and Six. That's the good thing about the migraine: thinking time.
I have two problems. The first is that I like to define terms and use them to construct concepts. This doesn't work with my writing style, which is better with commonsense explanations and with examples. Since I don't come up with the terms unless I have examples in mind, a lot of the time my apparent restructure is more explaining "This is what happens" and showing it. This means my theoretical underpinning isn't as much on the surface as it was, but the book will be easier to read, so I'm fine with this change. It's going to cause hiccups for one of the chapters for the weekend, for it means blending things more cleverly, but these are hiccups, not world-ending changes. I can't see how to interweave them yet, but that's not the bit I'm focused on right now, so a way will emerge. It won't emerge until tomorrow, for I'm still fighting the migraine, so finishing Chapter Four is all I shall manage today. (which is not what I thought five minutes ago, but the migraine wasn't as manifest five minutes ago.)
So today is about things emerging and tomorrow is about things merging and I'm on track for the next full draft late next week. Now I think I'll move away from the computer, gently, and deal with the migraine for a bit. It's a much lower level migraine than it was last night, but it's messing with me. There's no big weather, so it's a tension migraine, hence the need to complete things regardless. Migraines might mess with me, but they have their own logic and the trick is to identify it and respect it. Deal with the cause as well as the symptoms. I'm dealing with four major things this week, and that's a lot.
Chapter Three isn't final, but I've sorted out the biggest of the problems and what it needs now is a close re-read, which I'll do when I do the same to the first two chapters. I wanted to get Chapter Four to the same state by today, but a migraine last night made it not quite possible, so that's today's goal. I'm starting it all very late, because a migraine is a migraine is a migraine and after a while into it I wasn't doing useful work and it was stupid to even try. I'm about 25% in, though. And I've started looking ahead at what needs doing for Chapters Five and Six. That's the good thing about the migraine: thinking time.
I have two problems. The first is that I like to define terms and use them to construct concepts. This doesn't work with my writing style, which is better with commonsense explanations and with examples. Since I don't come up with the terms unless I have examples in mind, a lot of the time my apparent restructure is more explaining "This is what happens" and showing it. This means my theoretical underpinning isn't as much on the surface as it was, but the book will be easier to read, so I'm fine with this change. It's going to cause hiccups for one of the chapters for the weekend, for it means blending things more cleverly, but these are hiccups, not world-ending changes. I can't see how to interweave them yet, but that's not the bit I'm focused on right now, so a way will emerge. It won't emerge until tomorrow, for I'm still fighting the migraine, so finishing Chapter Four is all I shall manage today. (which is not what I thought five minutes ago, but the migraine wasn't as manifest five minutes ago.)
So today is about things emerging and tomorrow is about things merging and I'm on track for the next full draft late next week. Now I think I'll move away from the computer, gently, and deal with the migraine for a bit. It's a much lower level migraine than it was last night, but it's messing with me. There's no big weather, so it's a tension migraine, hence the need to complete things regardless. Migraines might mess with me, but they have their own logic and the trick is to identify it and respect it. Deal with the cause as well as the symptoms. I'm dealing with four major things this week, and that's a lot.
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