Browsed by
Tag: working on a novel

Interruptions

Interruptions

I’ve been trying to wrap up my final draft and get it to the last editor since the beginning of December. My plans were clear, my goals laid out with pristine exactitude. Yeah, that.  The details–although I’m sweating them currently–don’t really matter to the big picture. What does matter is that at any moment something else WILL demand my attention. So instead of a long, wordy post I thought today I’d offer a handful of thoughts on interruptions. This topic yielded a multitude of cartoons and…

Read More Read More

Re-Re-Revised

Re-Re-Revised

Did you ever have one of those projects you thought was just about done . . . except you needed to adjust this one thing. And then that one thing led logically to another. And after that you discovered an excellent new technique and it would apply to this current project, so now if you just revamp these bits . . . . Eventually it HAS to end. In this case I’m talking about the novel I am THIS CLOSE to having completely ready to start production. ON or before September…

Read More Read More