A little update

I am not quite finished the book with the killer deadline. I was on track to finish by today, but when I told new editor about the reason the book was going to be a tiny bit late, she... walked over to a different department to ask if there was any reasonable way the book could be pushed back (which in publishing terms means: get published later).

And they said yes. She was apologetic that this hadn't happened early before my brain almost imploded.

Part of the reason I said yes was: I had peaked early. What does this mean, in terms of writing? Pretty much what it means in terms of sports. I can double my word count on a project on a daily basis - sometimes more - but it empties the well. The goal is to reach the end of book before the end of well contents.

But I had had to go back two chapters and revise heavily, and that slowed me down a lot toward the end because Michelle's revision brain and creative brain don't like each other much T_T.

So instead of actual writing, I spent the last three days of last week writing proposals, because this book is the last under-contract book, and the editorial director wants to take the proposals to the editorial board this week. And I couldn't have done that if I had been writing in a blind frenzy.

I have one book review column to write this month, and the book to finish, but I am hoping to go back to a reasonable writing cadence. Well, not today because today is bookstore day. Tomorrow, though.

I am a bit behind in West novel words, and hope to make up the lower word count when I go on writing retreat.

(This happened a lot for both books: end of one book I would focus on ending; other than that, I would write words for both projects.)

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