This Is Your Nose. This Is Your Nose On The Grindstone. Any Questions?
It turned out to be one of those things were people say they need work done on something fast, but then kind forget for a while that you’re the one will do it, then suddenly remember again and come back to you on it.
So after several days of silence, the non-fiction children’s book is a go, and I have, I’ve been told, until the 5th of September to finish the first draft. As Deep Thought from The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy would say, “Hm. Tricky.”
Still, it can be done, and in a way it’s not all bad. The looming deadline (For which I am in no way responsible, I love it when that happens) means that they know their time is finite and can’t be wasted, and these people have worked under the constraints of television production, so they know that you can’t really afford to much around too much. The upshot of all this translates into, “Any changes or suggestions they make will be fairly reasonable, and they won’t be making changes just for it’s own sake, because they don’t want their deadline to slip.”
So it’s off to work for me.
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How many words do they require?
They’re looking at less than 15,000, I think. The bullk of the time is spent in research and possibly interviews for inclusion of quotes in the manuscript.
That shouldn’t be so bad. I have to write twice that much in that time if I’m going to get this latest tome finished by my deadline, but then I do have the luxery of not requiring quite as much research.
And btw you’ve never mentioned what the book is actually about. Are you hiding something from us?
The folks hiring me left me with the impression they’d rather I not mention anything specific until after the thing is out. So it’s kind of a contractual obligation that way.
Wow, so you are hiding something from us. How enigmatic.
I’m intrigued…