Rising
January 21, 2002
7:25 a.m.
Saturday was a good day. Sunday didn't see as much getting accomplished. This morning was good again. It all adds up to being about half-way finished with the new section. If I can manage to complete this by the end of the week, then it should be smooth sailing for getting the entire draft done by the end of the month.  I think it was Dean Smith who once said to me that in any project, there comes a time about halfway through where he thinks it is the worst piece of ... well ... I'll just say garbage here ... that has ever been done. But he keeps his nose to the grindstone and gets through it, and in the end it turns out there's always something valuable there. I can totally sympathize. Part of it, I think, is that you're so familiar with the story that it no longer holds that fresh zing that it did when you first started. The other part is that the work is hard. There are decisions to make, paths to chose, and no boundaries to help you manage the process. Unlike many other things in life, if you chose not to decide these things you still haven't made a choice. So you make the choices, and you forge on, and you try not to worry if the choices you've made are right or not. You can always go back if you need to, you think. But after awhile the shear magnitude of the work it will take to go back over things again wears you down. I'm starting to get excited about this story again. It's a good feeling. It's like I've been at the bottom of a lake for a minute or two, and I'm coming up closer to the surface, exhaling the last of the air in my lungs and seeing the sun refracted in the choppy surface above.  Daily Persistence is © Ron Collins |
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