Into the Final Turn
I've had an incredibly productive few days with this manuscript. Another chapter and a half and I'll be done with this draft. The stats, for those of you keeping score at home: 405 pages and 111,000 words. Those will increase, briefly, and then decrease, when the real work-- editing-- begins.
For now... at long last, I think I'll finish draft one this weekend.
I'm trying to stay in my protagonist's head, so I've avoided (for the most part, successfully) listening to Bruce, if failing to play his music can be called a success (I don't think it can). As I've said elsewhere on this blog, this protag is more country than rock and roll. I've been playing Johnny Cash's prison albums a lot lately. When that hasn't worked, Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings have hit the scene.
When draft one is over, I'm cranking up perhaps the most exquisite Bruce album I own, my bootleg of his second night at Fenway Park in 2003. After that: Nebraska.
It's time. In fact, it's overdue.
Adam
For now... at long last, I think I'll finish draft one this weekend.
I'm trying to stay in my protagonist's head, so I've avoided (for the most part, successfully) listening to Bruce, if failing to play his music can be called a success (I don't think it can). As I've said elsewhere on this blog, this protag is more country than rock and roll. I've been playing Johnny Cash's prison albums a lot lately. When that hasn't worked, Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings have hit the scene.
When draft one is over, I'm cranking up perhaps the most exquisite Bruce album I own, my bootleg of his second night at Fenway Park in 2003. After that: Nebraska.
It's time. In fact, it's overdue.
Adam
Labels: Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash, The Manuscript
posted by Adam Hurtubise at 11:45 PM
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Kudos on rounding the final corner on the book. And on Nebraska--great album.
Thanks for referring me to Dystel! Miriam referred me to Lauren Abramo. She liked the partial and requested the full--which will be going out next week.
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This is kind of like running a marathon, isn't it?
Well, yeah, it is like running a marathon. It's like running a marathon in 100 sprints of a thousand words each.
Congrats on the requests, Jamie. Great news.
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