Feeling the Crunch
When I first starting writing again, I did so for quite some time before I told anyone. It was at least a year if not two before I told anyone, so you can imagine that I had accumulated a few books in waiting. Up to this point we had been pulling the novels we've published from that available pool, and the Children's books don't take long at all for my part. (The children's books are really Sandy's babies, because she has the most time and work invested in them; while, the novels are more my babies for the same reasons.)
Coming in September, however, we are planning to host another release party for the sequels for both The Faceless Nutcracker and The Clause Rebellion, and I'm still working on writing the sequel to The Clause Rebellion.
In order for Sandy to get the cover and the formatting for sequel, we've got to have it to her by April, which means I need to get it to Mama at least a week or maybe two before that. That leaves me about three weeks to finish my part. Luckily I am closer to the end of the storyline, but after I finish writing it, I read it through proofing for mistakes and making notes of things that need to be tweaked, added, or removed. Afterwards I go through it again making the necessary changes. I stay on Sandy's back about deadlines, but this weekend, I'm the one feeling the crunch.
My best friend and I were working on getting everything together to start a Dr. Seuss study at school on Monday. I got to a day where we share a little Dr. Seuss tidbit about him locking himself in his tower office at La Jolla for eight hours at a time to work on his books. Now that was dedication! I can't imagine locking myself in an office alone with no outside distractions for that long at a time. Is it any wonder his work is so widely known and soooooo popular? Anyone with that kind of dedication deserves to have his own month to celebrate his life's work!
