A Lesson Learned...
Aug. 20th, 2024 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosa_heartlilyAt the end of every project we do a Lessons Learned exercise. I'm pushing for us to do it throughout the project so we can capture them as they happen because even a short project can take over the memory of what actually happened. To that end, I've added a new tab to our Dynamics/P4W thingy, and typed in the ones on our central list into our template project. I haven't formally announced it - I'll see if anyone notices! - but I will introduce it properly in September when everyone's together.
In my personal life, I learned long ago to never say never because it just makes God crack the divine knuckles and go to work on you. A friend has just demonstrated the truth of this by being determined not to appoint a man to a particular role. Well, I could have told them that would just provoke the Almighty to finding the PERFECT man for the job - and that is indeed what has happened :D
Another episode of Umbrella Academy. I'm so glad I decided to watch from the start - it's filling in all the gaps.
I expanded my list of characters a bit further this morning. I don't normally have a lot of characters because I'm worried I won't make each one distinct enough for my readers to tell them apart. Of course, this being a crime story, quite a few won't be DOING a lot... I might also have over complicated the Smiler thing; simplifying it would cut out some of the bodies. The next stage in the snowflake is to expand each sentence in my summary paragraph into its own paragraph, so that's tomorrow's job.
But I'm asking myself why am I writing another real world novel? My first love is fantasy but I don't write it very much. Of course, there's all the world building and creature creating... But in a crime story there's all sorts of real-world stuff to get right...
I dunno. Harding and Patel want me to write them. Who am I to deny my characters what they want?
In my personal life, I learned long ago to never say never because it just makes God crack the divine knuckles and go to work on you. A friend has just demonstrated the truth of this by being determined not to appoint a man to a particular role. Well, I could have told them that would just provoke the Almighty to finding the PERFECT man for the job - and that is indeed what has happened :D
Another episode of Umbrella Academy. I'm so glad I decided to watch from the start - it's filling in all the gaps.
I expanded my list of characters a bit further this morning. I don't normally have a lot of characters because I'm worried I won't make each one distinct enough for my readers to tell them apart. Of course, this being a crime story, quite a few won't be DOING a lot... I might also have over complicated the Smiler thing; simplifying it would cut out some of the bodies. The next stage in the snowflake is to expand each sentence in my summary paragraph into its own paragraph, so that's tomorrow's job.
But I'm asking myself why am I writing another real world novel? My first love is fantasy but I don't write it very much. Of course, there's all the world building and creature creating... But in a crime story there's all sorts of real-world stuff to get right...
I dunno. Harding and Patel want me to write them. Who am I to deny my characters what they want?
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Date: 2024-08-26 09:35 pm (UTC)