It's why at 4 pages a day, which doesn't seem mind-numbing (in theory), I should be able to write 120 pages a month -- but I'm happy with 80 on a slow month. Because, yes, all the other bits -- the research, the revision, the page proofs which are the world's worst form of torture, as you read them only looking for Everything Bad (and which sink me into a state of gloom that makes the current book difficult to write), and also the conventions, etc -- take time. Everything takes time.
Dealing with crises takes the type of time that eats books, though; it can make a day job a mind-numbing hell of one-foot-in-front-of-the-other, but the day-job becomes enforced by simple routine; the writing gets lost to emotional dead zones.
So, yes, the business model has an implicit ideal in it. And yes, I've flubbed <wry g>.
But at the moment, unless a different things blindsides, things are on track again, and after the next two year gap, there shouldn't be another one. She says, hopefully, while knocking wood.
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Re: But wait! There's more!
Date: 2004-08-25 10:56 am (UTC)It's why at 4 pages a day, which doesn't seem mind-numbing (in theory), I should be able to write 120 pages a month -- but I'm happy with 80 on a slow month. Because, yes, all the other bits -- the research, the revision, the page proofs which are the world's worst form of torture, as you read them only looking for Everything Bad (and which sink me into a state of gloom that makes the current book difficult to write), and also the conventions, etc -- take time. Everything takes time.
Dealing with crises takes the type of time that eats books, though; it can make a day job a mind-numbing hell of one-foot-in-front-of-the-other, but the day-job becomes enforced by simple routine; the writing gets lost to emotional dead zones.
So, yes, the business model has an implicit ideal in it. And yes, I've flubbed <wry g>.
But at the moment, unless a different things blindsides, things are on track again, and after the next two year gap, there shouldn't be another one. She says, hopefully, while knocking wood.