Progress on the book
So far the manuscript is a bit beyond 40,000 words. I will be posting updates here from time to time as I pass key mile markers. You have to understand that one of the points of this blog is to publicly shame myself into actually writing and finishing the book.
Folks often ask how long it will be by the end. I don’t know. It will be precisely long enough to tell the story. I figure it should be at least 50,000 words. At this point that looks about right but we will see how it fleshes out. Right now I am on the second round of content creation, having finished the first round of the same and done a round of editing. At 50,000 words I will stop and edit again, then likely pick up the content creation once again.
Writers are never happy. We are editing creatures, like knife sharpeners who insist that they can get a blade just a tiny bit sharper with one more pass along the grindstone.
Here is my visual tracking I do in my office on the white board:
The dates are on the left and the corresponding number of words on the right. As you can tell, I had quite a bit of time to work on the project in late February and early March. That was a mixed blessing, as my main market was in its seasonal slump. Now I have less time but more work. It’s like my father used to say – you either have time or money; you rarely have both at once.
So the book continues. When I have time I can often sit down for a few hours and be super concentrated and hammer out 750 words in an hour or so but those times are not common nowadays.
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