Finally Finished Chapter One

I didn't realize how long it would take me to finish the first chapter but it was real toil of labor. I kept on shifting the content and then the synopsis of course, and back again.

As I mentioned before, it really pays to find a way to organize all the ideas in general headings and then topic headings. I find it hard however to commit to it. It's not that I don't know what I'm writing but sometimes I connect more to the writing process than to outlining; I really despise outlining.

And then there's the market research. While playing with Ivry at the neighborhood park today in Squirrel Hill, I figured I'd get it on by thinking how to deal with the research part since many companies want to know what my competitors are. Now that I have settled both on the voice and the subject of the handbook, hopefully it will be an easier process. I'm working on the cover letter too. There is so many many things to include in a book proposal; sometimes I wish maybe I would be better off writing fiction during a sabbatical... but then, who would be my advisor??

Today Lynn and Dad called from the airport in Washington D.C. to say they were taking off back home to Israel, and that my very old childhood friend Lenny - well actually Gabi, his wife was in a terrible car crash. His wife is pregnant. Thankfully she and Jack, Lenny's father are okay. I felt utterly distracted after that. How elongated my attention span gets and then spots of it melt into words then feelings when I heard this terrible news. I wanted to do something but couldn't. I was on the phone with Jack for a vrief minute. He informed me that all is well. Hey, I'm in a library far away even from my own toilet bowl in Israel.

Sometimes I just feel I am in a bubble. But at least, this bubble is floating somewhere to somewhere...

p.s. I think I know what I am going to write about in my next short story.