{"id":3,"date":"2006-02-14T20:15:51","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T01:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/passarella.com\/blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2006-02-15T00:44:47","modified_gmt":"2006-02-15T05:44:47","slug":"endings-and-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.passarella.com\/blog\/3\/endings-and-beginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Endings and Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today ended up as a double deadline day, or rather double beat the deadline day. About a week or so ago, I received the first pass galley pages for KINDRED SPIRIT<\/a> (JUNE 2006) for review and corrections with a February 16 deadline. This will probably be my last chance to make changes to the book before it goes to press, although a second pass galley is not completely out of the question. I finished a day or so early and overnighted the pages with changes to my editor at Pocket Books.<\/p>\n

My other deadline was self-imposed. Since my son, Matthew, is scheduled to begin radiation treatments (5 days per week for 6 weeks) starting the 16th, I wanted to finish the first draft of my current novel, Shimmer.<\/em> This novel had been put on hold for various reasons at various stages during the 2.5 years I’ve been working on it. I even put this novel on hold while I wrote a complete other novel, ANGEL: MONOLITH<\/a>, back in late 2003 and early 2004. I was 62,000 words into this new novel and I thought I had a chance — if I kept my nose to the grindstone for a good month straight — to reach the finish line (THE END line?) before Matthew began his radiation treatments.<\/p>\n

The self-imposed deadline worked as I finished this one a day early as well. I wrote for 24 days straight without a single day “off” and I wrote 155 pages, or about 40,000 words to complete the first draft. Now the work begins on the revision\/polish\/etc before I can submit this one to my agent.<\/p>\n

So today was a day of endings (my work on KINDRED SPIRIT) and beginnings, i.e., the first draft of SHIMMER. It was a little strange to be working on a final product of my novel writing at the same time that I was finishing the very early stages of another one.<\/p>\n

Until next time,
\n-Jack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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