Exciting

I am in the process of putting a final copy of my book together (though I have three small sections to write), and am in the final revision stages of most of the book.
Now I have one revision copy that I work on, exclusively on my laptop, and use three backup methods at the end of the day (a thumb drive, a rewritable CD that gets locked in a metal filing cabinet, and an emailed a copy to myself as well on an account created solely for that purpose). I get fastidious about such things 'cause I don't trust computers all that much. Looks like I may meet my deadline after all (can't tell you what date that is--'tis a secret).

The book will be close to 450 pages, as I thought. People who are reading the revision are giving me enormous amounts of encouragement--it's progressed far beyond the form it was in as my thesis. Probably the hardest part now is simply being extremely guarded about my time to complete this, as my illness is causing me a lot of fatigue and I need my best hours to get the energy to work--but it's not forever, this time taken away to put the last touches on a project that has consumed my life since 2001.

And then, my gosh--what will I do after it's done? Start another book, you say? Why, of course--only writers would put themselves through something like this, over and over!

Some of the book (the latter half or so) takes place from 1959 to 1971; I've been listening to a lot of the oldies from the mid-sixties and seventies, as it helps me remember the "backdrop" to the things going on in my family during that time. Click on the video from YouTube to hear the one song in my Itunes that always brings me back to that time..without fail. And the video itself...I need no other source to see a terrific representation of '60s clothing styles. And the dancers midway are...groovy.