Where are my minions? My personal secretary? My man Friday?

[pbray]

The good news is that the pages I wrote yesterday stood up to the critical test--the next day readthrough while drinking my morning coffee.

The bad news is that I'm completely confused on the timeline. I'm not quite certain if it is still summer or already autumn, and this is important to the plot since there is a distinct winter season when ships do not attempt to cross the great sea. If I'm going to kickoff a naval war (and I am), I need to start it in the summer or figure out how to delay it until spring.

This is where I need a personal assistant to go through the story notes and the chapters I've already written, and construct a precise timeline. Book starts on Day 1, which is Earth equivalent of X. Character A murdered X+#, news of assassination reaches Seddon on X+##, etc.

I hate having to go back and organize these fiddly bits, when what I really want to do is to keep pressing forward with the actual writing.

Each time I start a book I promise myself that this time I'll be organized, and keep notes of such things as I go. But once again I've fallen down on the job.

Sigh.

Comments

[tryslora]

When you figure out how to stay organized from day 1, please post so the rest of us can take good notes! *grins*

I have been considering using a personal wiki, now that I've finally had the thought to store it on my thumb drive so I can access it from any computer. Well, that has the wiki software installed anyway!

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I never thought of a personal wiki. Not that I'll do it, but now I have a new thing to think about.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

A personal wiki that *someone else updates* would be best!

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Exactly! While we go out shopping.

Or drinking.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Or drinking, *then* shopping, which sounds like it'd probably be the most fun way to go shopping, to me. :)

Where are my minions?

[(Anonymous)]

Let me know if you find a free source of minions. I'm constantly confused as to the season and the day. Keeping track is like dusting for me: every time I do it I swear I'll keep it up, that if I do a little each day it will never get unmanageable. But writing a new scene is so much more interesting than tracking down whether the moon was full or not in the previous chapter that my resolution is abandoned almost before I make it. Minions, however, would solve everything. Think the Big Buck Authors use 'em?
Lindag

Re: Where are my minions?

[pbray.livejournal.com]

I certainly hope the big buck authors are contributing to the full employment of minions. Clearly it is merely a clerical error that has prevented The Powers That Be from sending me the minions to which I am entitled.