I need to start referring to it more as my "manuscript." It's not a full-blown book until it's got a few hundred pages nicely bound together with a beautiful cover, and maybe a dust jacket if it's a hardcover. Perhaps there will be a photo on the inside back cover. Maybe a pic of Tammy and me.
That is still awhile ahead of us.
Since completing the manuscript nine days ago I've been doing some revisioning. Right now I'm looking at part three, which is about my years at Elon. It's now striking me that the depiction of that is a foreshadowing of the greater drama to come. The bad things but also the great good.
(I'm coming to realize what the book's moment of climax is. It's three words. And I'm looking forward to the person it pertains to discovering it.)
I'm going over it all, seeing what things can be improved upon, where the prose can use some tightening. I'm not sure at what point this escalates away from being "first draft" but it's definitely got forward momentum behind it.
Meanwhile, I'm writing other stuff too. The last several weeks of finishing the manuscript thrust me "into the zone" and I want to make the most of that however long it lasts. Which I hope will be for awhile.
Maybe I'll commit to posting more to this blog. I feel like a neglectful parent to it sometimes, and that's not right.
More next week!
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