I also decided this week that I'm drawing my own illustrations for the book, assuming this is permitted. My book is due six weeks from this past Monday. For some reason, six weeks feels like the crunch time, maybe because it's how much time I've ended up with to revise the messy, incomplete first drafts of these chapters into something I feel good about sending to my editor. Today alone I'm restructuring half a chapter, hopefully about 5,000 words, so I'm going to save my lyrical brainjuice for that and instead share with you some things that have been proving helpful as I embark now upon a project entirely to big for my brain to hold at once. Some of this is writing-specific, but plenty of it isn't.
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I also decided this week that I'm drawing my own illustrations for the book, assuming this is permitted. My book is due six weeks from this past Monday. For some reason, six weeks feels like the crunch time, maybe because it's how much time I've ended up with to revise the messy, incomplete first drafts of these chapters into something I feel good about sending to my editor. Today alone I'm restructuring half a chapter, hopefully about 5,000 words, so I'm going to save my lyrical brainjuice for that and instead share with you some things that have been proving helpful as I embark now upon a project entirely to big for my brain to hold at once. Some of this is writing-specific, but plenty of it isn't.