I'm a teacher.

Tr:  Ani mora.

Huddle up peeps, it's time for the Monday Writing Report (MWR).  One thing to realize is that I have a slow long arduous (sometimes boring) writing process that involves several outlines on thinking maps, and then a more detailed outline with yellow grid paper written with a special mechanical pencil, and then typing up a more formal outline, and then revising that outline a bunch of times.  Where am I right now?  I just finished the first word document outline for this version of the proposal.  I've moved from yellow grid paper to keyboarding land.

I like Neil Gaiman's advice to "finish stuff."  He says writers learn by writing every day and by finishing stuff.  I'm glad to report that a 15 page outline is now an honest to gosh computer file. Tomorrow morning I'll start revising it and will probably revise 2 or 3 more times before sending it off to the publishing house for round 2 of editor feedback.  No light at the end of the tunnel yet with this new proposal, but the train is moving slowly along the track.  Right now it's wine time.