The Organ Grinder’s Monkey

Yes, I’m going off radar again. But no, this time I’m not sulking. I just have a big honking project for a client that will quite literally be taking up most of my waking hours for the next week as I try to turn something in the vicinity of 100,000 words of brain-dump into 40-70,000 words of pure sparkling brilliance. So that’s something like…20 pages a day for the next 7 days. *eyes goggle*

I normally like to stretch something this big over, say, a month or three. But it didn’t work out that way this time and I’ve agreed to give it my best shot anyway (we have a few weeks extra built into the contingency plan, if we need it, but we hope not to use it). So I’ll be turning off email, stocking up on (healthy) microwave meals, protein-rich snacks and rewarding treats, and gluing my butt to my office chair for the duration.

I’ll try to post when I can, but don’t expect miracles (I will need some downtime and “warm up” time, so hopefully I can use some of that here).

Ah, the life of a mercenary word nerd. It’s feast or famine, I tell ya. Feast or famine.

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