Dare I say it? I am almost done with These Are Our Stories. I should have a manuscript in shape by 5 October before I head to Albuquerque and Salt Lake City. I need to do a couple of things: scan and install graphics and create a table of contents and cover sheet. I also need to insert the resource guide for domestic violence as well. I get the resource guide on 9/14 and will work with it. I have to take the graphics to an outside source for scanning since my scanner doesn't handle these particular diagrams.
It has been a long time coming, and I am excited. Now I must continue my search for a publisher as well as seek a production grant. I now know that this can be done, and I am glad for the work that is going into the project's completion. Actually, it won't be complete until I find a publisher. But we are at a good stage here and I can see an end to it. The women will get their book.
The other projects are moving slowly. Erica hasn't written much of her autobiography and I am concerned. I don't think she will make her self imposed deadline of 1 December. At this point I have nothing more to edit, and it is frustrating. But she will realize that she has to develop and impose a writing schedule, that writing is a lot like gestation and birth. She must nurse her project, and right now she is not doing that. I can only hope.
The homeless shelter project is in the hands of the grant writer, and she plans on having the application to the Illinois Arts Council done by the end of the month. It will be really neat if this particular project works out: writing with homeless women. I am looking forward to it.
It seems like HER is very busy, but it isn't. I could be doing more, and am looking for more to do.
