The third book is almost finished with the re-edit and the publisher is waiting to begin the process. It will take three to six months to complete the process, during which time I have been known to get ouchy; maybe this time, it will be different.
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I am happy with the book. In re-reading it during the edit, I was still moved in the same spots as when I was writing.
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Most of the writing was done at one of five restaurants where the noise and distractions were easy to ignore, compared to the distractions at home -- the garden, the trees, the painting, the cars, the wife!
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During the writing, I became so close to the characters in the book that I would think about them at night or when on a long drive.
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On more than one occasion while writing at a restaurant, tears would form in my eyes and then dam up along my glasses rim. Finally, I would have to stop and wipe my eyes with a napkin.
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Once, a waitress from another table came over to me and asked if I was OK.
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"Onions," I replied. "It's just the onions in my egg-white omelet," I explained.
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She looked at my plate. "...Oh," she responded weakly, and left with a funny look on her face, probably because my egg whites were scrambled with no onions.
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I still have to insert the 300 DPI high resolution images, but that shouldn't take long. It has been such a long process for me, one where I lost my enthusiasm for a while, but then regained it. Not much left to do now. Just the images.
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Maybe, I'll take time for just one more pass through it -- before I let it go.
"Stand up and walk out of your history." ~~ Phil McGraw (Dr. Phil)
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