I'm out of words for the day, and my fingers don't want to touch the keys, and my eyes don't want to try to unscramble and reorder all the letters, so I need to wrap this up. I was v. productive today, despite not waking up until 10:30; I took care of email, wrapped things up around the studio, took a shower, ate some gross leftover Chipotle, and then adjourned to Starbucks, where I edited for hours and hours (and hours and hours). I was there from 2ish to 8:30ish, with a break for sushi, before coming back to the studio and collapsing on the couch. Sad fact #1 was that I only made it through eighty pages of edits (which is actually respectable -- the first half is more dire than the second half, so I knew it would be a brutal slog a la invading Russia in winter). Sad fact #2 is that I couldn't stop when I got home. I had to answer questions for a guest interview that will be up on some blog at some point in the future (I hate promo), and it took almost two hours because I try to be witty and concise and to the point, and readers of this blog know I have trouble with all three of those things when I'm tired and strung out on caffeine.
But I finished the interview, answered some email, and then (because I couldn't bear the thought of editing more stuff from scratch), I input the first thirty pages' worth of edits on my computer. But I can't keep my eyes open anymore, and there's no sense pushing myself to keep going when I'll just make mistakes -- so I'm going to go to bed, set my alarm for 9:30, and start it all again. Wheeeeeee! If y'all want to see me in person at some point...maybe don't expect to see me for awhile. It's gonna be a rough week or two, but the end for this book is definitely, truly in sight at this point -- even if that means the reboot of Ellie and Nick's book is approximately one day beyond the end of this one. Goodnight!
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