2) creation

• working on book 0. adjusting scans of handwritten version and building up chapters. probably half way done as of now. recorded Ian whimpering in bed.
• (yesterday) made four copies of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... book 2 at work. bound them each with metal clasps and delivered one to mom and dad. took a photograph.

2) creation, 4) housekeeping

• working on book 0 of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... scanning in handwritten version and finding several false starts, mistakes, and alternative constructions I had forgotten about. most relate to the handwritten version and I will include these as well. printed off book 2 at work on high quality printer, will use that copy to run-off books on work copy machine. deleted out files from zoom h4 so it is ready to go.
• (last two days) a few final touches on book 2. made each chapter into a PDF file to be printed at work. uploaded files from zoom h4 into computer. archived work on external hard drive. even though I'd planned to begin working on the book soundtrack again could not resist temptation to go backwards to the prototype and benchmark versions of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... and compile them together. the quick and fulfilling work on the rear makes book 0 irresistible. scanned in prototype versions of earlier works.

2) creation

• final revision of book 2 as a whole. cleaning up a few areas, reading each row in isolation and then in relation to the others. a few final changes. slight change to cover to mark difference between book 1 and book 2 and therefore all subsequent books.

2) creation

• (yesterday) finished chapter 10. Second book of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... now complete. reviewing the five chapters as a complete whole and see one piece was inadvertently duplicated - revised from its original form two different times in two different chapters months apart. initially thought to delete out one and find something else to fit, but in each chapter it was placed to relate to the adjacent rows and cannot be excised so easily. some thought now of how to acknowledge the repetition is being maintained purposefully. otherwise done and now fully focus on book soundtrack.

2) creation

• coming in on end of chapter 10. several pieces filled in and revised. larger piece added and partially revised. within a few pagesof being done.
• uploaded sound files from zoom. had filled up all memory. don't remember having recorded so much.

2) creation

• with the order and number of chapter 10 pages mostly finalized I could add page numbers to each. impossible to do while constructing a chapter as pages may be deleted or added to accommodate key text or artifact spacing. a few more pages came together.
• recorded part of a conversation with mom about reading the first two books - but interrupted when available zoom memory ran out.

2) creation

• chapter 10 work - enjoying the process more when it is all coming together, instead of pushing hard to get the initial momentum.

2) creation

• chapter 10 coming together. good to be closing in on a chapter end and a book end.

2) creation

• large piece finished on chapter 10. 7 or so pages left. can finally see the structure of the chapter.
• (yesterday) cleaned up two smaller pieces for chapter 10.

2) creation

• recorded dream on zoom h4. spanned twenty years and lost large sections of it when I woke up, but Ian suddenly at my side and quick awake to remember it. he recorded his own dream while I tried to pull the details of mine through. he encourage me several times.

2) creation

• (last two days) pushing through on chapter 10. last night feeling no progress, frustration. today abandoning several graphic manipulations that were beginning to feel hokey and irrelevant to the structure of the chapter. mush better tonight, several more pages done.
• wrote a few ideas in stray notebook.

2) creation

• (last two days) long revision on one row that runs nearly the length of chapter 10.

2) creation

• some progress on chapter 10, revising one row that stretches the entire chapter. yesterday, while falling asleep, had a fleeting image of how to pull it all together. but could not remember the structure when awake this morning.

2) creation

• chapter 10 of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... hitting a wall half way through. strong editing but not seeing the next pieces falling in.

2) creation

• (yesterday) revising chapter 10 of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage..., working on the pieces already arranged and inserted. surprised by the associations coming out unplanned. wonder what others will link when they read through the pages.

2) creation

• in ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... unexpected reworking of last part of chapter 9 to have it come into chapter 10. half of chapter 10 also finished.

2) creation

• finished chapter 9 of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... - revision, last alignments, standardization of certain formats, et cetera. now on to chapter 10 and a large scale rearrangement of what I'd tentatively sketched in. don't have overall rhythm set yet. anxious to finish chapter 10 and be done with book 2. plans are to return to book soundtrack while also compiling book 0. expecting book 0 to come together as quickly as the rear.

2) creation

• a little bit of work on chapter 9.

2) creation

• big final push on final editing of chapter 9 of ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... then on to chapter 10, currently 1/3 done.

2) creation

• adding footer to ...fence posts rotting in the acreage... cover to label each book.
• editing last parts of chapter 9 of ....fence posts rotting in the acreage...
• wrote down several story ideas in notebook.