Bogged Down with Perspective

It’s Jan. 17th, so time to fess up.

I’m at 87% complete onTales of the Republic, which means I missed the Jan.15 deadline I set for myself. It’stwo days past now and I still have about 11k words left tofinish the book.

Now, considering where I was a month ago, and how impossible that deadline seemed, that’s still incredible progress. Leaps and bounds beyond what I was doing before.It’s important to keep that perspective in mind.

However, I readily admit that itbothers the hell out ofme to mi...