Into the Rough

I finished the rough draft of Wormwood, Nevada earlier this week. The draft took roughly fourteen months to finish but the majority of it was written here in Boise, in the last four and a half months. The story did that thing where it takes over on its own and it finished about 25 pages sooner than I thought it would, but I think it's a good sign when the writing runs away from you like that. Now I'll set the draft aside and let it cool for a month to get some perspective from it. In the meantime I'm going to read more and study some cosmology. I was always bad at science in school, especially the math part, but I do like learning ideas and theories about the universe.

I also finished The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. Good book, but I still hold that about 200 pages of the manuscript could have been cut out, especially in the first half of the novel.

Well, happy Thanksgiving, y'all. We're going to fondue it.

"It should be called fun-do!"

-Kitty, from "That 70's Show"