Goal for Completion Set

January 23, 2007

The most recent edit of The Marker was completed yesterday. Corrections to the manuscript, located on my hard drive, also commenced yesterday. The is hard, tough, re-writing. I'm not inclined to think I have enough endurance to push my way through another 230 some pages to complete the novel before the end of the month.

Perhaps a plan such as that of writer friend, John Steinbeck, should be employed. Before writing The Grapes of Wrath, he had planned out the novel's journey and plotted it against a calendar of events in the writing to the degree that he knew within a few weeks time, the completion date. With 8 days left in January and 230 pages to go, the daily average is 30 pages per day. This is 'doable' but probably more, unlikely than 'doable.' A more realistic goal would be 15 pages per day which would need an addtional 16 to 17 days, bringing February, 8-9, 2007, as the date of completion.

This, then, is the goal for completion: February 9, 2007.