Passable news / Aggravating news

So I did tell work about my return to school, and after several different hemmings and hawings, which included going with my hours cuts as suggested and as the other two girls could agree, and just letting me go after I train someone else, the accountant decided on a different tack entirely - again.

They mean to hire someone new to take up my full time spot, with me spending most of August training said person, then to shift me to a *new* project he had, which would have taken him multiple hours per week to get decently set up. It's good for part time, and it means I'm still present to troubleshoot my prior job. It doesn't look like exciting work, but I'm not in this job for the excitement.

But I do hope they get someone competent, with a good memory for weird details, and willing to try to figure out a problem first, and not scream for help at once or set it aside for "later". Half the ways I know to fix problems that crop up I know because I poked around at the program until something yielded itself up to me.

I've already been trying to figure out a rough "lesson plan", to fix the places I've fumbled training in the past. The whole job at once is overwhelming, I know, and I got to learn it in bits, many many months apart.

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So I spent today pecking away at the summary I've got for Raising the Storm. It aggravates me, because it covers the plot, it does so coherently for the most part (though I may have to get Colin to check that) and it does in fact tie up all the threads I've included.

And it completely misses the heart of the piece. The two subplots I cut as the most cuttable as pertains to the main plot are the least cuttable for the character arc. My main character has two other characters who act as mirrors even when being themselves, which make a strange love triangle, and also end up showing three different ways of dealing with deity. I've got all the plot, and far too little of that part of the theme.

What frustrates me is that i did once write a two page summary that was *all* the main character's character arc, and these mirror effects, that was coherent and successful; and turns out to be the sole other file lost in the last computer crash. I looked through the retrieved files, and it seems to be gone entire, or so garbled I couldn't tell that was what it used to be.

And I wrote it in one day in a white hot fire, so I can't remember how I did it.

Passable news / Aggravating news

So I did tell work about my return to school, and after several different hemmings and hawings, which included going with my hours cuts as suggested and as the other two girls could agree, and just letting me go after I train someone else, the accountant decided on a different tack entirely - again.

They mean to hire someone new to take up my full time spot, with me spending most of August training said person, then to shift me to a *new* project he had, which would have taken him multiple hours per week to get decently set up. It's good for part time, and it means I'm still present to troubleshoot my prior job. It doesn't look like exciting work, but I'm not in this job for the excitement.

But I do hope they get someone competent, with a good memory for weird details, and willing to try to figure out a problem first, and not scream for help at once or set it aside for "later". Half the ways I know to fix problems that crop up I know because I poked around at the program until something yielded itself up to me.

I've already been trying to figure out a rough "lesson plan", to fix the places I've fumbled training in the past. The whole job at once is overwhelming, I know, and I got to learn it in bits, many many months apart.

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So I spent today pecking away at the summary I've got for Raising the Storm. It aggravates me, because it covers the plot, it does so coherently for the most part (though I may have to get Colin to check that) and it does in fact tie up all the threads I've included.

And it completely misses the heart of the piece. The two subplots I cut as the most cuttable as pertains to the main plot are the least cuttable for the character arc. My main character has two other characters who act as mirrors even when being themselves, which make a strange love triangle, and also end up showing three different ways of dealing with deity. I've got all the plot, and far too little of that part of the theme.

What frustrates me is that i did once write a two page summary that was *all* the main character's character arc, and these mirror effects, that was coherent and successful; and turns out to be the sole other file lost in the last computer crash. I looked through the retrieved files, and it seems to be gone entire, or so garbled I couldn't tell that was what it used to be.

And I wrote it in one day in a white hot fire, so I can't remember how I did it.