Dateline: above the garage in Portsmouth RI, 5 February 2005
Got up this morning and spent two hours figuring out the organization of this section, which I end up calling "The Fundamental Solution Set" within Chapter 4, "Shrinking the Gap By Ending Disconnectedness." Then I crank 2,500 before my son Kevin's YMCA basketball game. We lose on a last-second long-distance shot, 28-26. Our best player, big man Kyle, is gone for the season with a broken wrist thanks to his father's desire to expand his horizons with snowboarding. I could have broken Dad's wrist when I heard. Missed his rebounds today. Easily 36-28 with him playing. Kevin does well, then sloppy in man-to-man D sections, then good again at the end, with a couple of nice assists. We had been up 7-1, then down 19-10, before tying at 20 and keeping the game within a basket til the end. Still, hate to lose the close ones.
Back in the chair after the game, I crank another 3,300 for a total of 5,800 words, giving me basically 100k words with five sections to go (three sections of chapter 5, conclusion, preface + the chapter intros we do later when we're editing).
Feel very good about this section. See little editing ahead and that is the first one I've felt that way about. Mark's editing was front-loaded on the first three chapters in PNM and then much lighter as it went along. That had to do with me really finding myself in the process.
This time is harder, and now I know why. Last night on phone Mark asks how I like writing a book without any slides to guide me. Smart ass, he, but a really telling question. Made me realize a lot of my angst. Smarty-pants editors are like that.
Watched Tucker Carlson last night and have to admit that it's a pretty cool show. Sorry my segment didn't make it this week, and given the positive feedback from producer and Carlson himself (to mutual friend Warren), I expect it to go on, and probably next week. Cool thing I look forward to is how they might package around the interview segment. Interviews last night ran about 8 minutes, as mine did, but Carlson had short segments fore and aft and mixed in between exchanges. So a lot of production around the interview segment, and I look forward to seeing what they do.
Off to movie with kids now. Kevin is now so interested in WWII, thanks to the Nintendo Cube game where he can play WWII fighting scenes in various countries, that he's now demanding to watch "The World At War" documentaries and "Band of Brothers." Not exactly the way I got interested, but I'll take it.
Actually, it was how I got interested. I just played "war" with cruder toys . . ..
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