Oh my gosh, am I sick of this book. I am so sick of spending every day hiding from it, procrastinating working on it, finding a zillion things to do instead of it, and then, at like midnight, wandering in here and then still figuring out something else to do.
There are so many problems. I'm sitting here changing names but the more I change the names the more I worry that I'm turning it into a work of fiction. I worry about the names I'm using - which is true to the person, true to the time period. I have my Jewish book of baby names open to the Bubbe and Zayde names for the people of my mother's generation and the aging baby boomer section for people who were kids when I was. Then there's the Dictionary of Jewish Names from which I'm getting surnames. What a nightmarish hassle. And I can't just use the search option to find and replace the names when I am changing them because my computer is like a comedian: if I'm replacing the name Gale it will also replace the word "regale" and then I'll have a big problem. So what do I have to do after I'm done with this name stuff? Another read through!
Then I started looking up the PDF conversion process again tonight and can't remember how and so I went on the Amazon discussion boards and it's like, guess what Linda? You're never going to be able to figure this out! Really I just need to choose one of the midline pricey options they offer and let someone do it for me. I have to accept my stupidness. I'll end up with pages half printed and a book numbered from the highest number to the lowest, from beginning to end backwards!
So I'm frozen here in book land. I can't blog (this one's a diary, right? Right?) I can't write for salon right now. I can barely write an email. I'm keeping up with Poetica. I'm managing to cruise Facebook at all hours of the day and night and, I have to say, my desk and workspace area looks wonderful since I procrastinated writing all day today and reorganized it!
Onto tomorrow. A committment then: I will finish these name changes. Monday read through the entirety. Tuesday reset the margins and chapter spacing and write the back of book blurb. I will not think of anything but the task before me.
Linda, I am calling you out! Have you
ReplyDelete1) finished the name changes?
2)done a full read through?
3)worked on the margin's and chapters?
4)written the back of book blurb?
Remember why you started this book! How EXCITING will it be when you are holding that finished book in your hands!How PROUD you will be!
GO LINDA GO!
Have a pretty day!
Kristin
p.s. - I think you would look PRETTY in a big nightgown, bonnet and sleep mask! ( :
Thanks Kristin! Funny about the sleepwear! I already practically slip out of the bathroom because I'm all lotioned up like a greased pig!
ReplyDeleteAnd, thanks for calling me out. I finished the name changes. Didn't finish my read through (though I managed to cruise eBay for about an hour - do I need a PRETTY watch???!) have done the margins and chapters and haven't worked on the blurb.
Thanks for the pep talk!