I hate it when that happens

[pjthompson]

So I wrote 1250 words today on chapter 17—a pretty blistering pace for Little Miss 500-a-Day here. But it had been pent up since last Tuesday while I let it move through the subconscious a bit. Today it just tumbled onto the page. I was very happy.

Then I'm typing it up and we had an earthquake—not much of a one, felt like maybe a 4-pointer unless it was really huge somewhere else. Felt sort of like an earth burp, not much more, but enough to shake something loose, apparently, because I realized there was a huge hole in my logic for that chapter. Damnation in a hand basket! I may just finish writing the sucker and worry about the logic later. I do have to fix it before releasing it to the local beta readers—they deserve logic, after all—but I'm not going to interrupt the flow to rethink this thing again.

Funk.

Just got the word on the e-quake: 3.4, centered off Manhattan Beach which is less than 10 miles from here. Really not much of an e-quake at all. Yawn.

Comments

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear about the hole left in your logic... but I'm sure it's there for a good reason. When you go to fill it, you might just find a nugget of gold in there somewhere.

[pjthompson]

Let's hope it's a nugget of gold, anyway. :-)

[jdparadise.livejournal.com]

Hah!

So should I go out driving with my laptop, looking for an earthquake so my logic holes can shake open? Seems a very ineffective way of editing; you're so at the mercy of the elements.

Still, hey, if it works...

::shakes keyboard::

[pjthompson]

Yeah, I definitely recommend the vibration method of logical analysis. Bumpy roads and laptops should work. :-)

[maggiemotley.livejournal.com]

I'm with Jon -- I'd love to have the earth shake and point a flaming finger at all the holes in my plot.