How can I go crazy?

Okay, I know I'm crazy already. But I'm crazy in a "oh crap I'm trying to do way too much this summer and I'm going to snap" kind of way, which is not the way I need.

So -- because I'm amused to see what responses I will get -- I will throw this open to you, the great LJ mind.

Tiresias, a seer in Midnight Never Come, lost his mind years ago, through spending waaaaaaay too much time living in a faerie palace. He can't tell his prophetic visions from the things around him from the stuff he's just making up, and he's lost any sense of when events are taking place; the few parts of the book written from his point of view will not have dates attached to them as everything else does, and do not take place in the order they're presented. His is a very particularly dream-like madness.

. . . but I have a hard time remembering my dreams, and don't do dream-like writing well. So I ask you, oh great LJ mind: what methods would you recommend for getting myself into the proper state of mind to write this book's Tiresias scenes? How can I make myself go the right kind of crazy, or at least play it on TV the page?

grargh

Sometimes, to write 1082 words, one must first delete 363.

That revelation just wasn't working there. It was one too many. From my perspective, there's now a glaring question of why certain characters didn't bring up a certain topic at a certain time, but hopefully I can distract readers from that temporary omission with some flourishes on a different front. The information will show up later; just not now.

It sucks that my net progress for the day is less than 1K, though. I know it happens sometimes, but it still sucks. (Especially when I deleted two hundred and change a week or so ago.) Things like this make my end-of-month goal just a little bit harder to achieve.


Edit: Oh, hell. I really am a bloody-minded OCD Virgo fanatic. 412 more puts me at 1494 for the night, and 1131 net.

And since I'm adding that, I might as well add these.


Authorial sadism: giving somebody a ride in the sixteenth century means sharing a saddle with them. i.e. getting very cozy.

LBR quota: it's always more fun when the pain is caused by love.

release date (or at least month)

I forgot to mention this yesterday, but word on the street (i.e. a phone call with my editor) is that Midnight Never Come will be out in June of next year.

To you all, that's nearly a year away. To me, that's just around the corner. It's amazing how an entire year can telescope down to nothingness when someone lays out for you just what needs to happen when to get that more distant event to occur on time.