Month: October 2023

Weekly Update, Week 9

The grind continues. I did up my game this past week. One day I worked four hours: another five. It has been sixty-nine days, and I don’t see an end in sight. I would like a day off, but that doesn’t seem possible. Next weekend we might see family which would make a pleasant change.

Right now, I am working on Chapter 5. After that I will have two more chapters and the conclusion to go over and then send to the editor. Each chapter is taking a different amount of time to go through. The footnotes are the most tedious part. I am not sure if anyone reads them, but I can’t shake my historian training. I am doing them, but on some level it seems pointless.

 

 

Weekly Update, Week 8

I have now worked for sixty-two straight days. A couple of times this past week, I worked for six hours. I took a long look at my calendar and made some tough decisions about what I can and cannot do for the next six months while I try to finish this manuscript. As a result, I resigned from three committees and canceled my Y membership. I am trying to reschedule some ongoing commitments. I felt great after I did this with a real sense of freedom. It was a wonderful feeling to look at my google calendar and have a lot of clear space. Doing this enabled me to work those six-hour days.

 

Weekly Update, Week 7

It is Saturday. I thought this would be a better day to post than Friday, but now I am not sure. I have been working so hard on the book that the blog honestly feels like a distraction. There probably isn’t a day where I would feel like I have enough time to post..

I assumed this would happen, which is why I planned on just doing statistical updates about my progress. Now that even feels like too much. I know it would not be good to have this website go dark for the next six and a half months. It is just that I feel panicked about getting everything done in time to meet the May 2024 deadline.

For now, I am just going to muddle through. I have now worked 55 days straight, averaging about two and a half hours a day. To finish on time, I have to step it up considerably. Today I worked almost four hours which is better. I am thinking about clearing the decks of all my extracurricular activities so I can have several totally free days to work. I’ll let you know if I do.

Weekly Update, Week 6

This past week I worked nine and a half hours. Since I started, I have edited the manuscript a total of 121 hours or over 20 hours a week.

I am going to change my posting day from Friday to Saturday. My next post will be October 14th and will cover eight days of work.

Wish me luck!

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