Re: Technical question: The units of a timeline

Neil Barnes wrote: 
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:50:29 +0000, Jonathan L Cunningham wrote:


Joann Zimmerman wrote:

In article <dmibl9$j7k$1$830fa7a5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...



In AI literature (temporal reasoning) there are two basic approaches
to reasoning about time: one uses "events" and the other "intervals".

I'm beginning to think Gantt charts. 


With PERT networks for planning the novel?

<g,d,r> 


Tried it. Didn't work. Though that's probably because I'm a start at the
beginning and see where it goes type.


This is what the PERT network for the eternally-WIP looks like:

    Start-->O-->O-->O-->O-->O ....... O-->O-->Finish

OTOH, this year's Nano novel (did my 50K, tho' so many loose ends I
reckon it would take another 200K to finish) has a sort of fractal
branching structure. One of the main characters went off with a
mysterious elf (mysterious, because he is the ship's cook, but the
captain is afraid of him) and she hasn't reappeared yet.

What do you do when your supposed-to-be-disposable Nano novel has a
more interesting plot and characters than the eternal-WIP?

Jonathan
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