Approaching Sayonara
Second to last chapter finished. Now on to the end.
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Saturday, February 11, 2006
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- Name: Christopher Barzak
- Location: Youngstown, Ohio, United States
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7 Comments:
By 'Approaching Sayonara' are you hinting that your book is going to be like that hugely successful 1950's James Michener novel about American servicemen in Japan?
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Nope, no hints. Just getting close to saying goodbye to the book at just about the same time I'll be saying goodbye to Japan. I didn't read that Michener novel and didn't know it was successful, but sure I'd love for my book to be hugely successful. I'll settle for finished for right now though. ;-)
I need your work ethic more. Congrats on almost being done.
Thanks Eric! I'll be ready to be done with it soon, I think. It sort of feels just right, as I'm getting ready to leave Japan to be finishing the novel I've been writing since the first month I moved here.
Making time to write is difficult. I try to break it up into smaller amounts of time so I don't feel so chained to the desk. If I do it that way, I feel more free and leisurely about it. And more often than not will end up staying longer than I told myself I had to anyway. Usually I only expect myself to sit down for a couple of hours a day and write, and they don't have to be all at the same time. Sometimes I'll break it up into fifteen minutes here, an hour there, a half hour, etc. Usually they're forty-five minute or hour long runs, though.
Go Chris go!
How's your cold?
Thanks guys, and the cold, Maureen, I am beginning to suspect it's a reaction to all the kerosene burning in my life at this point. At the schools and in my own apartment to keep warm. When I am out in the fresh air, I feel fine. When I am inside with kersone burners I am clogged up and headachey and feel like it's the flu. I'm hoping it warms up and becomes spring fast so these burners can all be put away.
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