Today I finished a complete draft of the last chapter, on There Will Be Blood, meaning that essentially I have completed a complete draft of my book on Anderson, tentatively titled Blossoms & Blood (I will rewrite the chapters a bit in the next month or so, and I keep going back and forth on whether or not I want to include a conclusion, but it is largely finished).
After a month of reading everything I could find on the subject, I started writing the manuscript in mid-August. For about a month or so in October and into early November, I started to hit a wall for a number of reasons, but otherwise I've been pretty focused on it the whole time. When everything really is done, I'll take some more time to reflect on that process, which in a way really stretches as far back as 2003.
I'll probably start sending out proposals in Feb (partly to have time to revise and partly with the hopes of being to include some good news on the dissertation in the meantime). Along those lines, one may have noticed that I've pulled a lot of the content off the blog for both Blossoms and A Frown--I fully intend to start bringing both those projects to an end in the next few months, with the expectation that by summer I will be back to my massive Hawai'i project.
The whole thing is about 106K words, which is only about 4 off of the final draft of A Frown Upside Down. I'd like to say its near time for a break, but I know that once I finish this for good, it will probably be time for a few more last minute revisions of A Frown Upside Down, and then . . . . wait for it . . . . back to Haunted Nerves. I am nothing if not persistent.
