Still have a cold. Not severe enough to keep in bed, but strong enough to keep me from human company, and my brain and energy-level are still about 70% of normal.
Indexing.
I’d started with Part II, which is the longest, trickiest, toughest Part of the book – all about archetypes and personal journeys. HUGE number of references. Truly a springboard for a doctoral dissertation, should someone want to go there someday. Then did Parts III & IV (yesterday).
This morning, just now, have finished Part I, and have moved back even prior, and am starting on Dedication/Acknowledgements/Intro. Time to take a break, get not only clean but as gorgeous as possible with a head cold going on. And maybe do a bit of pranayama/chi kung/yoga. Just circulate a little something.
Oh yes, raw foods juicing. I had been so focused on getting provisions into the house (over these last few weeks) for first an Open House, and then the Cognoscenti Reception, that I really neglected the “raw foods” aspect of my diet. And I’ll bet that this cold is at least in part due to ramming too much work-focus onto myself, and insufficient self-care.
Yesterday (or the day before? – memory blurs), I finally hit H-Mart, my favorite local source for inexpensive produce. Good to be inexpensive, as raw food juicing requires lots of raw veggies!
Brought home the ingredients for my favorite early-morning raw-food “power drink”: dandelion leaves (a tonic), parsley (another good cleanser), celery, beets (have actually adapted to having raw beet juice in my drink; something unthinkable when I was younger), carrots, and apples. Mmm, sounds good. Will go make another round now!
Am on a final push to complete Unveiling. The indexing is moving forward, faster than I though, thank God(dess). I am enormously grateful. I’d expected this to be an onerous task; it has (so far) not been so bad.
And I have a truck-load of edits to enter into the manuscript draft once again. Yes, another whole manuscript resubmission. (And each resubmission costs – $200.00.) No way out of it. Must be done.
For those of you who have ever contemplated writing a book — it is much, much more time-consuming and laborious than you you will ever think. Will the results be worth it? Time will have to tell.
Right now, I’m still advising all of my friends who are in a “knowledge-based business” to write a book. Passive income, guru-status as author, all of that. But with that advice comes the caveat. This is a huge undertaking, never to be taken lightly or frivolously. It requires complete, 100% commitment. There is a real danger of not hitting the goal. (There are so many people with an unfinished draft “someplace,” just as there are many people who get close to the goal of getting their Ph.D. but never finish; “ABD’s” – “All But Dissertation.”) Getting completion; getting the project done, requires a level of commitment that not everyone has.
That said, I do believe it is worth the effort.
Time well tell.
Getting close to the end-goal now, and we’ll see.