An update on progress today. First, it’s Saturday. It took some effort to get started. Weekend. But as soon as I got going, it’s been steady. Nice. Moving around the document in a bit of a flow state. Picking away at different pieces, listening to Belle and Sebastian. Why write on the weekend? Why not take a break? I know where I am going, and I am not willing to give up the momentum every week.
What did I do? I picked away at the front matter. I adjusted the title and edited a blurb (371 words). Mostly, I edited a piece on makeshift (571 words). Then, I stuck into some notes riffing for the next section, on the epigraph I want to use from Pablo Neruda, which unexpectedly is a way to get into writing about the Orkney Islands, where I was first exposed to Latin America.
This will allow me to get into a bit of an autobiography that I wrote years ago about how I ended up working in Colombia. However, it’s 3,000 words and ought to be about 1,000.
I’m not sure digressing to Scotland and autobiography makes sense, but I read somewhere “Don’t be afraid to digress.”
But, since the book is about tools and a tool we all use to write is a computer, getting to Scotland for a little will let me spend time on my first computer, and learning how to write. It would beep at every spelling error, and had a wonderful pixelated font, not unlike the one I am writing on now.