Time in a basement office

Where does the time go?

This site hasn’t been updated in nearly two years!  Wow.  So much has happened between reading about Sherman, which was the topic of my second-to-last post, and now, that I couldn’t begin to recount it all.  All the books, all the writing, all the learning, and all the struggles and triumphs.

Maybe there weren’t a lot of triumphs.  Mostly struggles.

Today, I finished chapter 33 of the 3rd draft.  That’s out of 35, so that’s good progress.  The book might be crap, but the progress is good.  Perhaps I should remind everyone that everything is relative, including book authorship throughput.  Measure how you will.  I gave up.  It’s too depressing.

To recap:

• First draft, 2 years and 110,000 words
• Second draft, complete rewrite, and 1 year at 80,000 words
• Third draft, 95% rewrite, and 1 year at probably about 80k (I haven’t checked)
  • Probably three more weeks of work

Draft No. Four will be new territory for me.  It will be the first time I’m not starting over from scratch.  That’s big and scary and not entirely true, as in, I edited the first draft, story and copy, before admitting it was garbage.  I really don’t have a good guess on how long it will take, only a bad one that might get lucky.  Let’s say a couple of months if I can focus.

I think I also have to change the title of the site.  There are probably only a handful of people who understand how truly terribly ironic it is.