{"id":7493,"date":"2018-09-19T08:11:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T13:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=7493"},"modified":"2018-09-19T08:11:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T13:11:38","slug":"so-much-can-happen-in-seven-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2018\/09\/19\/so-much-can-happen-in-seven-years\/","title":{"rendered":"So Much Can Happen in Seven Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SunriseSeven years ago today, I shared an entry here<\/a> in which I mentioned a new book was knocking around my mind.<\/p>\n

I figured that book might take three or four years to get to a readable state — with day job demands and a life to live.<\/p>\n

Seven years later, it’s almost<\/em> there.<\/p>\n

Seven Years<\/h2>\n

In those seven years, there were new jobs and new departments (with new demands on time). There were family tragedies and personal victories. Overtime and illnesses.<\/p>\n

Hell, two years and two nights ago, a good friend<\/a> in L.A. [kindly] tore into me for taking so damn long with this book! (And with the progress made in the last seven weeks, he had a good point.)<\/p>\n

I’d like to say I’ll have the draft for first-line readers done by this weekend, but it may be the next. Regardless: roughly seven years after seeing there was maybe something there worth writing about, it’s damn-near there! (In the month that started it all.)<\/p>\n

Of Course…<\/h2>\n

Granted, a readable draft does not mean the book is done. There will be further edits on my part — from continuity checks, dialogue consistency, and making mechanical-sounding sections sing a bit. There will be feedback from the initial readers and additional feedback from the second line of readers.<\/p>\n

But this book is nearing a point where next steps seem real.<\/p>\n

In the Year 2019…<\/h2>\n

The best thing, though, is the next writing retreat<\/a> will not<\/em> be about rolling this book around for another year. I won’t look at another<\/em> September with this book lingering as I say, “This is the year!” (Hey, I was born on the north side of Chicago, so I’m a Cubs fan by default. “Maybe next year,”<\/em> and “This is the year,”<\/em> are mantras I’ve heard for most of my life.)<\/p>\n

This book is almost a book! Not only that, but it’s the biggest and best book I’ve ever written!<\/p>\n

I can’t wait to share it with other people…<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Photo: Sven Brandsma<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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