Dateline: above the garage in Portsmouth RI, 16 January 2005
A very methodical day of preparing for tomorrow's writing. With chapter one under my belt, my sense of the book is pretty clear. Chapter one provided the big new mechanisms/rule sets for the plan of action, and next chapter two deals with the Global War on Terrorism. Like the first chapter, it's bottom up, or from micro to macro, so tomorrow I begin with Iraq, then move onto the region as a whole, and finally the war in a global sense.
Today I went methodically through my codex of key points from the blog, pulling the pages as I went along. Also went through the relevant copied pages from various books. Then I took those tighter notes and came up with 27 sticky notes of major points. Organized those into six groups: what we thought going into Iraq, what happened, what we learned, the blowback to the US military, the future solution set, a sense of the realistic road ahead. Then I took the various stapled pages of notes/posts/pages and distributed across the six categories. Then I decided the order of the 27 points across the six categories. Then I put them all into one big pile and start cleaning the house.
Up at the crack of dawn to write. This section will be easy, I think, since I've written so much on Iraq in the blog over the months. Trick, as always, will be keeping it under . . . uh . . . 6k?
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