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I’m kind of at the stage where I want to wrap things up, so every day I set my mind to completing this bit and that bit. I had a target word count in mind, an estimation of some sort, but it looks a little as if I might overrun that. I’m not very sure. I’m never very sure about these things, but I do that to give myself some remotely concrete destination to keep in my sights and also to figure out the scale of the project. It’s just the way that I work.

Like I said, though, I’m in the closing stages of the first draft. Things actually look very uncertain now in the sense that there are portions I still don’t know what to do with, but it’s all gathering some kind of momentum and it feels a tiny bit different these days. One of the important things is that I’m trying not to mess things around too much because this is roughly where I should say everything is where it should be. It sounds like it doesn’t make a lot of sense but that’s just the way it is until you have a go at it.

Yesterday, someone asked me what I think about my work so far. I’m not sure. I’m actually trying very hard not to think about it, in the sense that I think he means, because sometimes it just drives you crazy and you give up on it completely. At the same time, I thought about what the book’s actually about and was satisfied when I couldn’t really give some kind of definitive answer. While that’ll probably be a problem when I get to writing the pitch, for now it implies that I have no idea what I’m writing about; I have very bad summary skills; or it refuses to be reduced to some kind of summary, to some extent.

While the last possibility might not be the most likely, at least it’s there to begin with.

Miscellany

Ah yes, it will be time to choose my final year project soon. I’m kind of nervy. I have no idea what’s going to happen. I’m determined to make it a good experience, and in a way, I’m looking forward to it.

I kind of want to catch The Full Monty, but I don’t feel like going alone and I suspect this means I’ll be giving it a miss. From experience, anyway.

My book club moves into its second phase this week, but I get the feeling that if it’s going to die, this is pretty much where it will choose to die.

I’m beginning to think I want a small camera more than a large one, though I’m still considering.

Still have yet to put up my things, the whiteboard and the prints. Will get to it soon.

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