It didn’t take as long as I thought it would to go through the line notes.
I had a lull in my freelance work when one of the guys I’m working with had to step away from the projects we have going to deal with a family tragedy. (My condolences to my associate – I hope you’re doing well).
With more free time than I was expecting to have last week, I plowed right through the manuscripts I got back from my readers, and compiled all their notes into one master document. So now I have all my line notes, and all the larger story notes, and it’s time to get to the actual writing. Gulp.
The thing is, the next two weeks are crazy. We’re visiting with family, then Celeste starts kindergarten (which only goes until noon for the first week), then Daniel is trying to convince me that we NEED to go to the democratic national convention in early September. They’re screening his new film, Knife Fight, and being the big politics nerd that he is, he’s having trouble passing up the opportunity to hob-nob with the likes of the Clintons. But there are a lot of logistics to figure out in a short period of time for that to happen, so who knows.
Point is, with all this, and the work that needs to get done for other clients, I’m likely swamped for the rest of the month at least. I’m going to have to fight hard (read: forgo sleep) to keep moving forward on the novel. My goal was to finish it by the end of the year, which seems like a long way off right now, but it’ll be here before I know it.
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