Critical Death Theory, second draft: 51.8% complete
Looking forward to next week, when I will be returning to Moniack Mhor for a writing retreat. Moniack Mhor bills itself as Scotland’s creative writing center, and some of you may recall that I went there last year and had a really productive time of it. Back then, I was busy finishing the second draft of E_________ and Critical Death Theory was little more than a scattered collection of thoughts. Now, E________ is sitting with the publishers (I hope to have news to share on that front soon) and I am hoping to finish off the second draft of CDT and maybe even start playing around with my next project. Something SF, almost certainly, but nothing is written in stone (or anything else for that matter).
Unlike last year, I do have a bit of a deadline issue in that the completed CDT manuscript is due at the publisher’s next month. I really do have to finish the second draft up there or that timetable will slip. I am full of confidence, however! Even with the vast amount of napping the highland air seems to induce in me, I’ve made sufficient progress already that I will be shocked, shocked, if I fail to get it over the line. Also, and keep this to yourselves, publishers’ deadlines are distinctly more flexible than the legal profession’s, so I’m not going to put too much pressure on myself if I miss it by a few days. And who could blame me? Winter in the highlands; howling winds kept at bay by thick walls, roaring fires, and good company. There’s more to life than meeting deadlines.
Except, of course, that I’m a lawyer, so I don’t believe what I just said at all.
Total bummer.