Thursday, June 28, 2007  The entire Hal 4 outline - right here!
Here it is, my working outline with every plot twist carefully
detailed:  (Relax, it's an old version.)   Tuesday, June 26,
2007  Okay, so where is it?  I was going to make this big
announcement yesterday about finishing the first draft of Hal 4.
Well, a funny thing happened on the way to the end.  My wife and
I were putting together dinner last night (I was doing my
special hamburgers - ultra lean mince, an onion, an egg,
breadcrumbs, dash of herbs - while she made a garden salad), and
I started telling her about my plans for Hal 5 (or was it 6?)  I
started coming up with some great ideas with all sorts of neat
twists and turns, shady characters and a great outcome, and then
I realised I had to write it all down. So, mid-hamburger-making
I raced for the PC and spent about thirty minutes writing out a
1000-word outline.  (Yes, I washed my hands before I hit the
keyboard...)  I'd already written 4000 words of Hal 4 for the
day, so this wasn't ins