I have spent my morning taking care of errands, bills, laundry, exercising... and now I'm going to vote. When I come back, I'm trying a new approach. I'm going to start keeping a 'schedule' of how long I will work and what I will try to accomplish. By breaking it down into smaller pieces, I feel that I'll be able to be more disciplined. So, today's job is to read through the whole thing and see what the shape really is, not what I think it is or hope it is. From there I think I'll be able to focus on the sections that are working and clean those up and see how they fit into that overall shape. At least, that is my hope. By forcing myself to make these entries in the blog, I have accountability and that is a good thing at this stage. I'm in that awful middle place and I need to get beyond where I am now.
This is a calico power loom. I spent some time earlier looking at images of the machinery in the mills in those early days. Look at all those wheels and pieces that have to work together in order to create the product. It isn't terribly complicated compared to many modern machines, but still: all those pieces need to fit together in just the right way. That is today's metaphor for my writing - I need to see how all these pieces work together to create a viable product
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