Setting June 1st as an arbitrary deadline for The Cricket seems to be effective. It has shaken many decent thoughts free from my brain, and working them out has been more productive than rewriting sentences. A deadline has also made rewriting sentences more urgent -- and many sentences have been changed around. Finally, it gives me a point to set aside my keyboard, which will be a great relief. At some point one has to accept that a book can only be improved marginally, and that it would be better to let the imperfect thing slip from one's hands and begin working on the unwritten next . . . for this one is mostly unformed, and any writing at all will be a major improvement.
That said, revising a book is a nightmare when combined with a job and a toddler. My last week is going to be four more nights of late revising, followed by two full days of reading the entire project on the Kindle Previewer -- and then, the upload . . .
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