Cutting Myself Off So The Project Can Be Heard

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

As previously mentioned, I tend to go on and on (at “ludicrous speed”) when I am talking about something I feel strongly about. And the same often holds true for my writing. I attempted to make this an editing day, devoted to a careful trimming of the content of the proposal slides. I barely got past Slide 3. I was overthinking all over the place. I started feeling that dread you might recall experiencing when you were, for example, cutting your child’s hair and realize that you took a bit too much off the top.

Thank goodness for the back arrow button and control Z and all that jazz. And the brains I used to initially take “screenshots” of each page with my camera phone as a back-up to the back-up.

To my credit, I did continue adding more of Lenny’s photos - one from each chapter - in an effort to create a sense of continuity, a narrative. But I don’t know that I succeeded in building up any tension a la Teun van der Heijden (see yesterday’s post).

Yep. This day kinda sucked.