First Draft--Almost there!

Last week, I set a mini-goal of finishing my first draft by today. It was a bold goal, but it was doable. Over the past week, I have worked many hours towards finishing this draft. For this book, that means adding all the new content to the assorted chapters. To give you an idea of how far I've progressed, my "pile" of articles I've finished with is now two piles. I decided to start a second pile after I noticed that the first pile was swaying each time I added something new to the top. It seemed a prudent decision.

So what happened? Fortunately (or unfortunately), I found a whole other stash of articles in my filing cabinet. (Remember that I said I had been saving articles since the first book was published in 2003? That's a LOT of articles.) I then had a decision to make: make the deadline I had set or make the book more complete. I looked through them and decided that most of them needed to be included. So book content won out, and I will miss my mini-deadline by a day or so. But ultimately, the book will be the better for it.

I am planning on working on it most of this week, but I do have a few other things pending--like teaching a webinar next week. So it's time for me to stop chatting and get back to work.

I'll keep you posted! Thanks for reading along with me. :-)