aggienaut | Marathon Finish!

   17 days ago when an editor said might use my memoir manuscript for this editing class, if I could finish it, and it being half finished, I said I thought I could write another chapter or two to bring it to a place it could stop at.

   I've really outdone myself. Working on it most evenings but not even on the weekends, I have added 54265 words (3192 a day!) to bring it fully to where I had always intended to finish (through Covid to the high note of things opening up again). I did skip at least two chapters I definitely want to go back and fill in but its functional without them. I had no idea I had that kind of marathon writing productivity in me! (It helped that a lot of it I could drop in things I'd already written about the given thing, but still most of these had to be converted to present tense and edited line by line to make fit perfectly)

   The total is now 115,976 words, which is longer than fluffy pop memoirs like Live Laugh Love (80,000) but right in the middle of the range of books by the likes of Paul Theroux and Redmond O'hanlon which, while I don't presuuume to be as good as them, being in the range of them makes me feel I haven't necessarily gone too long.