Week 9: Anxiety Time

I return from the desert outpost ready to serve.

Well, spring break 2010 may not have been the most enjoyable experience, but it was the most educational. No strike that -- despite its ups and downs, this was the best spring break ever, I think.

I return from the McKee story seminar with too much work and not enough time. And that seems just about right to develop my story. Its a timeless tale of a quest to succeed against all odds, one that reinforces the most basic values: discipline, hard work. It could almost be mundane or trivial, but because I know how to avoid repetition, how focus in sharply on the turning points in the struggle, there is the powerful sense that this a fight with real risks that is nevertheless worth carrying on. We can be heroes!

Goals this week:

1. Submit registration for IABA Conference.
Finish Yang Jiang translation, making a quick Step Outline along the way
2. Keep going over my notes on Story and keep it active in the mind....
3. Finish final editing of the classical poetry paper