So, since I got out of my perfectionism tail-chasing the writing has gone very well – a scene a day rather than a scene a week. At this rate I might have my fifty pages within a month [crosses fingers]!
But I’m also working on the business end of things.
Not including quite what Palahniuk is, but I am going to try to deduct the Prague research trip from my taxes.
Even though I’m not published.
Even though I can’t guarantee that I will ever be published.
Though my writing acquaintances assure me this is all above board it still makes this adventure that little bit scarier, that little bit more real. I’m naturally risk-averse and images of the IRS breathing down my neck if I don’t get a book deal steal into my head unbidden.
But still.
For the past 3+ years I’ve raided libraries, taken classes, gone to writer’s conferences, purchased craft books and now traveled internationally in pursuit of the possibility of hammering this WIP into something suitable for print.
I’d not have gone to this much time, effort and expense if I weren’t serious.
So I’ll see what they say.
And keep (re)writing.