Mike Mulligan's Steamshovel and The Little Engine That Could
When I was a kid, watching Captain Kangaroo in my cracked footie pajamas, and eating all the butter and sugar out of my oatmeal first, the two stories mentioned in this post's title were the two I could listen to the Captain read over and over again.
Who knows? Maybe even then I had an inkling that my contract for this lifetime was Sisyphus Redux. Write, lose the draft. Re-write, lose the draft. Well, you get the picture. No? Then how about... Eat healthy, get the flu. Recover from flu, daughter with URI comes to visit. Daughter recovers, I get her bug...
Anyway, I have finished the final re-writes of the first 3 chapters which are the ones actually judged. I am about halfway, maybe a little more, through re-revising the remaining chapters. My page count is now spot on. I have tomorrow off which should be enough time to finish up (at least for the purposes of this contest -- I will polish the entire book over the first half of December as planned).
I have until around noon on Thursday to get this to FedEx and pay a fortune for guaranteed next-day delivery. Hmmmm... is it possible?
I think I can, I think I can...
posted by Pete at 8:43 PM
3 Comments:
You can!!!!! Do it!! I'm thinking about you (gets my mind off myself)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was thinking more like..."The Pokey Little Puppy"!
ahahahahahahahahahaha
Just kidding. YOU CAN DO IT!!!!
The book I'm sending to you for Christmas ought to inspire you.....a British writer who has written a hilarious (and bizarre story-line) story of the South. If HE can do it, I know you can! Go for it!
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