Progress, of a sort
Aug. 19th, 2010 12:25 amI've actually worked on the YA novel for three days in a row, which
is a rarity so far this year. Unfortunately, most of today's work
consisted of messing with spreadsheets and Wikipedia to work out
the calendar and timekeeping system of my fictional Mars settlers
rather than any actual, you know, fiction. This is my comfort zone,
to which I retreat when the writing itself is not cooperating. Oh
well, it's valuable worldbuilding and at least I typed it into my
notes file rather than as yet another expository lump in the text
which would eventually have had to be either excised or smoothed
into the action.