No plan survives first contact with the enemy.

[truepenny]

So, the book is broken.

This comes as a surprise to no one. The book is always broken.

Fortunately, I have ideas about how to mend the book, and maybe even turn it from a cargo cult plane into a real one that flies and everything.

I am not foolish enough to believe this will be easy. For many reasons, but the one that's currently kicking my ass is the fact that I cannot and never have been able to hold all of this book in my head at once. It has too much plot with too many fiddly bits. (I'm very fond of the fiddly bits, actually, but they make it difficult to do things like, you know, make a useful outline.) And when I need to do some radical rewiring, the fact that this book is like an ultra-elaborate Victorian dollhouse with all the gingerbread and tiny beautiful furniture and intricately carved staircase and real wallpaper on the walls ... well, let's just say it doesn't help.

Still, some of the new ideas (and a doff of the hat and courtly bow to matociquala who is at least half responsible for coming up with them) are very shiny, and I am excited about them. I am just feeling more trepid than otherwise about the process of implementing them.

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[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you! (she says, blushing).

And, yes. Can't do everything at once, but I can do one thing at a time.