The answer is a big, fat NO! I did not write 50 pages this week. I wrote more like 20 pages this week. Can you BELIEVE it? I failed to make good on my report-card promise. Me, whose only B in high school was in Gym class. (And okay fine, also one semester of Algebra 3, but there was the cutest, funniest guy who sat next to me in that class....)
But fear not, loyal readers. (Yes, the beloved three of you.) My failure to hit the target wasn't due to slackage. Not entirely, anyway. As it turned out, there was a bunch of reading and sorting through content that took my attention off the actual content creation. But, I did make progress. And not because I have anything to prove or anything, here's what I did this week:
- Wrote 20+ pages of new content
- Sorted through the notes from all my phone calls with the author from the past 4 months
- Sorted through various documents sent by author over the past 8 months, to see where content would fit in the book
- Phone call with author
- Emailed numerous questions (and received responses!) to both author and her second-in-command
- Read 1/3 of The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan, both to steep in his voice (which my author loves) and because there's really good stuff in there about, well, desire--which is the subject of our book as well
- Thought a lot about scrapping the entire out line of the book and starting over. May still do this, but not until next week
- Test-drove new tea shop called Atlas Purveyors, down on East Pearl, as writing location. Grade: B. High marks for nice owner, good tea, good people-watching out the front window. Low marks for draftiness and good (read: distracting) people-watching out the front window.
See? I was very, very active. Next week I hope to be more actively productive as well!
*Yes, sister Stacy, that one's for you! Mwah!
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