A Lost Lady

Where have I gone?  I'm trapped inside this paper.  A Lost Lady is the novel Cather published between One of Ours and The Professor's House.  I haven't read it yet, but I can't help feeling like it is an eerily prescient title given that I am currently lost in between those two books, too.

I binged approximately 12,000 words last week.  I'm currently down to 10,100ish without a conclusion.  I'm supposed to end up around 10,000 total.

I feel really good about the ideas I'm working with.  Sunday night, after a long week of working on it, I felt really good about the progress I had made.  (I also felt good that Andy made it to the finals at Indian Wells, though I did not feel so good that Ljubicic's unbelievable run through the tournament ran straight through my feel-good story of the week.)

But I am starting to panic.  My official deadline is one week from today and I can't help feeling like I still have so much to do.  So much that I should not be writing this blog entry, in fact.  So back to work I go.