Facebook Bound

The best way to keep up with me right now is to join my Facebook network (at the bottom of the sidebar).  I’m so incredibly focused on my book that blogging is wasting precious time.  My self-initiated deadline is the 10th, my birthday.  Realistically, it ain’t gonna happen but I’m working my butt off to try to see just how far I can go.

I would have hit my completion goal had it not been for the realization that I needed to expand 2 chapters.  This flung me into a state of turmoil and slight panic because I can feel myself getting in too deep.  Because this book is philosophically based, it requires deep analysis but I know I’ve repeated myself several times and in some parts just got so damn deep the reader is going to say, “WTF Tatiana?!”.  Edits will cut that word count out but some new things I realized need to be in there will make up for it.  If I could just have one week of 8 full hours a day of writing time, I could probably finish so I’m close.  I  just don’t have 8 hours a day.  I have like two.  That rots. 

The good news is that I’ve come much further than I thought.  I’m basically done with my shell at about 62,ooo words.  I figure edits and inclusions will keep it around a 60-65,000 word read.  It almost seems too little but I realized that if I go further, it means going deeper and I think I’ll loose my reader’s attention span.  I don’t know but that’s a gut feeling. 

This is going to be an introduction into a Philosophy of Eroticism, somewhat different from the Philosophy of Sex.  It’s original intent was VERY different but it’s turned into a normative argument for eroticism’s positivity and necessity in the human life and even surprsing to me, includes religion and Scripture. (fucking imagine that!  Me quoting Scripture!)

 I think it’s got potential to get published.  I might be giving my work too much credit but from some of the crap I’ve seen in print, this would really have to be bad to not make it.  As far as interest and sales, who the hell knows.  I can’t go that far or I’ll quit.  For now, it’s about finishing the longest damn piece of work I’ve ever done to completion. 

So based on that, I’m happy to announce I did meet the goal of finishing it by the 10th but only in so far as a 2nd draft shell.  I’m going to give it a week break and get back to it to finalize the details I realized I need more reading up on and to add the quotes that now appear as “XXX”.  Hey, some people use a damn blank line and I use porn.  Whatever.  I’m done with the shell. I did something still worthy of celebration. 

The deadline for the complete manuscript completion is Aug. 31.  I’m that close.  That’s not bad considering I constantly have kid interruptions which fucks up my train of thought til tomorrow.

To celebrate my birthday and meeting a goal that’s good enough if not ideal, I’m going to have a few glasses of Grand Marnier – and hopefully get “in the mood” for other things.  I’m currently stuck on the orgasm chapter.  I figure you can deduce what that means, right?

So, minimal blogging for a while.  Keep up with my progress and daily thougths on Facebook if you’re curious how it’s all going.

It’s midnight.  I’m off to flirt with my husband.  It’s too late to write.