Bohr’s Bathos – First Draft Completed
In the last two weeks, I’ve had zero time to write as I’ve been working on different projects/obligations. Knowing that there was a predestine slump, I had pushed hard on myself to complete Bohr’s Bathos before I was drawn into life. I did well, but I didn’t finish the manuscript in time to avoid the two week hiatus. I ended up with the final three chapters staring at me as I moved in and out of my office. Just sitting there, on my desk, was my notebook with the completed outlines staring at me and begging to be turned into words on a page. So today, after a long week of work, I made a pot of tea, drank a coffee, and cranked away. As always when finishing a manuscript, I slowed as each period took me closer to completing this project. Each sentence leading me to an ending that I didn’t want to happen – not the real ending in the piece but the end of writing this manuscript. It will have revisions, edits, and maybe some additions, but I know the story is complete.
So the first draft comes in at a whopping: 106,724 words. My second longest manuscript (though not even close to my longest – off by about 20,000 words).
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Over the last couple of weeks, I have begun a new process for writing. In the past, I had trained myself to sit and work for multiple hours a writing stint in order to produce hyper cohesive work without reviewing what I previously had written. However, since I work forty hours a week for a company, I have had to invest in a new process. That process is waking up at 5:15 in the morning so I can get an hour of writing in before I go to work (sometimes an hour and a half depending how quick I finish my obligations so I arrive at work looking like a respectable human being). So, my morning is the following: cook second breakfast (the food I eat when I arrive to work), eat an apple, make a cup of coffee, drink cup of coffee and watch sunrise (if the sun is rising at that time, which its no longer doing), shower, gel hair, write, get dressed, drive to work.
After work, I work for 2-4 hours on my manuscript. And that brings us to the important aspect of this post: Progress. I have been using this system for sometime (with regular readings of previous content before each writing session) and that has led to a high level of production on my newest manuscript: Bohr’s Bathos. This piece follows, Death by Comedy (or better known as its working title: Six Stalks, even though I haven’t discussed it much on this site), but it is important to note that Bohr’s Bathos follows Death by Comedy only in my bibliography and not timeline or content. Both are standalone pieces, as I try to do with all my work, and their worlds are fundamentally different.
With each day of writing, I watch it unravel in a good way. The story grows richer, and I realize, I don’t care about publishing. If it happens, so be it, but I am just happy to see my creations come to light. I love writing, and I write for myself, but I wish you could all experience my long form creations. Who knows, one day, it may happen. Until then, I will keep writing and sharing what I can with you. Thank you for following me and believing in me.
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The next five chapters have been outlined (17-21 (if you think that number is wrong, count it on your hand)). That means, I cannot postpone waking up tomorrow morning, and I’ll have to arise from my slumber at 5:15 to begin work on these next chapters. Then, after I go to work, I will continue to work on them before my social obligations. Not to mention, I have to edit/write important environmental factors into previous chapters of the new manuscript due to a recent trip where I saw a piece of artwork that forced me to re-evaluate how I was writing certain things. I know, this post is coming off as ambiguous and lacks necessary variables, but I do that so that the manuscript remains a mystery. Just know artwork did what it is supposed to do and that is to affected the viewer. I am glad; if I ignored the feelings that were inspired by this piece of art, I would be a poor writer as I wouldn’t let the manuscript grow with my own experiences… even if it is a pain to go back and retrofit already written chapters. What are you to do when you believe in the Kantian creation of an aesthetical piece of work.
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