The major speed bump of the week, the big report I had to write, kept me away from Book IV a couple of days, though I wrote some after choir practice (staying up too late, after midnight, to finish a scene.)\u00a0\u00a0 I\u00a0 didn’t want to leave Book alone that long, and Book definitely did not want to be left that long.\u00a0\u00a0 By the time I finished the report, Book’s frustrations had taken over my brain and I was a very grumpy camper indeed.\u00a0 After a pause to eat, attempt recreational pursuits (boring, annoying)\u00a0 I went back to Book last night, and said “Fine, but no later than midnight; I’m really tired.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Book leapt forward, dragging me with it, and it was after midnight once more when I finally said “Enough, cannot keep eyes open…”<\/p>\n
The report this year was\u00a0 about 5200 words and includes pictures.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s built every year on the structure of the previous reports (which are designed to fit with the form that must be used, but expand the form to fit our situation) but the sections do have to be rewritten every year, and photographs chosen from those I’ve taken that year to illustrate specific points.\u00a0 Some of the photographs had already been cropped, shrunk, and converted back to jpegs, some hadn’t, which meant time spent searching the year’s photo files and then working on the ones chosen.\u00a0\u00a0 In addition, the writing for this report must be polished…and then the report must be printed out, proofread, corrections made and a new printout…etc. \u00a0 So 5200 words for this report takes longer than 5200 words of straight-run first-drafting.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I actually did start on it (but not full-bore) a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n
Progress on Book IV this week was 5400 words in four days, instead of 8000–most of it the first two days, when deadline panic hadn’t quite set in.\u00a0\u00a0 Chances are that this week’s production won’t reach 10,000,\u00a0 because of many other factors that the report put off.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 However, Book will not let me off entirely, so in a few minutes I’ll be deep in Book again for an hour or so.<\/p>\n
On the map of\u00a0 Start to Finish,\u00a0 Book is (at this moment) 37,140 words.\u00a0 If all those words were final words, then it would be just over 20% done, but my experience is that words surge in and out of a manuscript, and my stories are better if many more words are written than finally show up for the group photo at the end of the project.<\/p>\n
Must go now.\u00a0 Book has hold of one arm and is pulling hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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