FRIDAY MORNING
on the road, sitting in a roadside motel, trying to do a little catchup
my count before i left was 42, didnt do anything yesterday, all road
so now im about 3 pages behind and need a 50 before today is done
and i did some thoughts while i was on the road that i need to work into
the text while they hot - best i get busy - sure am sorry the repubs stood down
on the tax rebate - i was hoping to milk that one out a little, i had visions of folk
getting those short paychecks every 2 weeks & cursing out the house, ohwell
i cant imagine that any colored person would fall for ron pauls bullshit (nor the rightwing
in general for that matter, but sense they often do, perhaps they should read the 2008 tnr
article about his newletters, talk about oldschool, no if no and no but, problem is that a lot of
folk feel the way he does, theyve just learned to hide it better, the repub debates being a case
in point
im out, i got to clock 8 pages today, still got sat & sun for backup but i would
prefer to use the weekend to get some cushion for next week, the holiday
was reading where palin is accusing the whitehouse of blasphemy or something
because their christmas card doesnt mention jesus - it cross my mind that the word holiday
is probably a riff on holyday, wonder if i can use that somewhere
all my love
WEDNESDAY
okay, im in, rickydoc is in the groove, should be on the road but i had to dig in 1st
so now the road will be a day long meditation on the work, okay, this the way i woodshed:
(at least on mature manuscript) x pages a day will get me to a certain day w/a manuscript
at 10 pt singlespace (easier to carry around) my manuscript is 114 pgs,
at 5 pgs a day i will hit 114 on wed, jan 11
thats taking sats & suns off, if i dont schedule 2 days off i will take them anyway and feel bad so i do
5 pgs is nothing, a struggle but a doable struggle - the key is dont think about all you have to do, just do
your 5 pgs - so i got 36 now, ima try to do 45 before i get on the road, bec thur will be on road and rough
the struggle will be doing my 5 while in memphis, living at my sisters, family and friends demanding
their pound of flesh, if i was sitting at the sacred desk this would be a done deal, the odds are actually
against me trying to do it in memphis, but it would be nice to do this draft in memphis, surrounded by
memphis ambiance and doing whatever research i can do in the memphis room of the city library
and if it is just too hard i will come back to sryacuse and schedule rest of january doing it
either way ima have a draft by end of january, 5 pgs a day will keep the blues away
that 5 is based on current pace - i started w/10 a day, 10 was too hard, cut back to 5, 5 im clocking, but its early, 1st half of manuscript always easiest, 2nd half got to tie up loose ends, its gets harder, 5 might be a problem then
i will cross that bridge when i get to it, will clock 5s as long as i can, it is a superhuman expectation but
superhuman expectation is the only thing that get a novel wrote
im actually betting that i can keep my focus while in memphis, and if i dont i wont hammer myself about it
but thats why im sitting here trying to clock a 9 before i get on the road, i know it will be diff 24 hour shift
so im trying to get one day ahead of the game, a 5 today would be 40, tomorrow would be 45, if i get it done
before i get on the road, im good until fri
(then you got your off days, if you dont stay on game during week, you can use sat and sun for catchup - or to get ahead of next week, so if im stumbling by friday will catch up this weekend, but the win is staying a day or two ahead, to account for the exigencies of the road, it keeps my anxieties at bay if im ahead of the game instead of behind)
i assume this dont interest you dear regulators, but production issues will obsess me during woodshed
everyday gon be a struggle to get my work done, to work productively and efficiently, to make use of everyday the good lord see fit to give me
all my love
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