Cinco Pàginas

So I also totally wrote five pages today and over 1000 words . . . : D

Just counted it up!

Wow . . . . . . . good day!

That Gut Feeling

I can feel it . . . that gut feeling that I'm doing something daring and exciting and I don't want to stop.

Just rewrote my Author's Note. And I like it a lot!

Here's the first part:  

Here goes nothing. At least it feels like nothing. Except it equals my entire summer and Christmas break and hours and hours over two semesters. This is a book. I know, you can tell . . . but this is a book that changed my life. How I view my Church . . . definitely how I view GYC, and how I even view myself, my peers, my walk with God, what it means to be a Christian . . . okay, let’s just stick with “it changed my view of life.” 

wait . . .

I don't even know where the most recent draft is!

oh my word . . . lol

Peace

"Thanks, Suzanne. I appreciate your diligence."


That's what Scott Cady just wrote to me after I gave him a short update that I was headed back into this full time.  And after not writing for two months. His encouragement just made my day. I can do this with words like that. 

Still at it

So much has changed and I'm still working on the book . . . now over Christmas break . .  . I hate it . . . I mean strongly dislike it!

And Jump

Here goes nothing. ; )

Editing, Editing, Editing

And then I'm done. I finished my last chapter earlier this morning . . . now to just edit.

So excited!! It's still a big task but I'm looking forward to sending it off to the endorsers. XD

Finished two chapters

I was up all night writing. I have less than 24 hours to finish the book and send it off to people to read. This is exciting and scary. I think I'm done . . . maybe . . . let's see . . . hmmm . . . well there's one more story I want to include . . . but I'm not sure . . . it's good but I really want to be done.

Well, see . . . I'd love to write more books about GYC. Like a book for each conference. That would be cool. Big project but cool.

Alright. That's it for now. 

Cinco Paginas

Got it.

These are five real pages. Nothing fake about it. I have at least about 40 real pages. Pages I feel like I could send it. Kinda . . . I mean the whole thing needs to be edited by someone other than me.

I need a break

No joke . . . sometimes I think I'm just lazy . . .  other times I feel so utterly worn out. Either way . . . I really want a vacation.

I think I was stressed going into this project. Oh well . . . back to work!

Suzanne Ocsai

I'm "done"!!!

Kinda . . . not really . . . I have the minimum page number to go to press. That's all. haha . . . but I'm nowhere near done . . . oh, well . . . I'm happy tho . . . been writing a lot in the last 48 hours. : )

Outline . . . Done

Table of Contents:

Author’s Note

Forward: ????

Introduction

1.     What Happened?

2.     A Dream and A Joke

3.     More than Haystacks and Veggie Meat

4.     The Dream Immerges

5.     Creative Communications

6.     Complicated Communications

7.     From I-Man to Y-Man

8.     Getting Down to Business

9.     Pine Springs Ranch 2002 // Pentecost: He Will Do It Again

10.  A Weird Date and the King of Stalkers

11.  Five Minutes!

12.  Prayer was Happening

13.  Staci’s Prayer

14.  Steve’s Turning Point

15.  The Jokesters

16.  In Between

17.  Ann Arbor 2003 // [title]

18.  The Birth of Sub-Conferences

19.  Meeting With ASI

20.  Sacramento 2004 // [title] (3ABN)

21.  A Love Story Made In Heaven at GYC

22.  JMAC’s Opportunity of a Lifetime

23.  Chattanooga 2005 // Now is the Time

24.  We Need More Busses

25.  The After Effect

26.  Miscommunication

27.  Learning to Communicate

28.  Baltimore 2006 // By Every Word

29.  Fire and Rain GYC en Espaniol

30.  Inadequacies

31.  Minneapolis 2007 // Be

32.  Life and Death

33.  To Fail or Not to Fail (Do Not Betray the Trust)

34.  San Jose 2008 // For This Purpose

35.  Louisville 2009 // unAshamed (Creation v. Evolution)

36.  GC Delegate

37.  Baltimore 2010 // No Turning Back

38.  Healed Wounds but Ugly Scars

39.  Five Years Later

40.  Something’s Still Happening

Unbiased

I was accused of being biased today toward one side of the conflict. It's not true . . . although, I probably act that way sometimes because I know more people on that particular side. I'm unbiased as I can be. I see what's wrong and right with both sides and have supported both, gained a blessing from both, and criticized both strongly.

I'm worried about the project though . . . I do NOT want to seem sympathetic to either side. The facts are my focal point and I will pursue them and an unbiased approach as best I can. With excellence . . . with an open mind.

Cinco Pàginas—Purpose Found

I've got my starting conflict. I was struggling for so long with this aspect of the book. I didn't know what I was going to start with. When telling a story it's good to start with some kind of conflict, and I didn't know what conflict to begin with. Now I do. Now I feel like I can actually sit down and write this thing.

Four Interviews

I have four interviews scheduled for today, which means I probably won't get any pages written. (Each interview is about an hour.)

Did two interviews yesterday and a page and a half. The day before saw about four pages written. It's coming along.

I also talked with my professor yesterday and think that I'm going to cut the page count. Two Hundred pages is just too much . . . I agree with him . . . finally. I'm going to shoot for 130 which means I'm over half way there. I want the story to be much tighter too.

He told me, you don't want the good, you want the great. I know that some days I've just been writing to fill a page allotment, which isn't all bad, but I need to also write for quality. I need to remember to write what will add to the theme, the middle thread that runs throughout the book.

If the book is 130 pages, it will also be an easier read.

Well, I just hope the press is still interested. They let me know they got it but I don't know what they think yet. Can't say this is the easiest thing, but it's definitely exciting and something that I want to see through to the end.

Cinco Pàginas—What Does This Mean?

"Thanks! Looks good.
Scott Cady
Pacific Press Publishing Association"

I don't know, but it can't be too bad . . . right?

Cinco Pàginas—Sent

I just sent four chapters to Pacific Press.

I can now eat ice cream.

Cinco Pàginas—Sesenta Pàginas

You betcha!!

OK, so I didn't write 60 pages today . . . but I reached 60 pages total!!! Oh, how exciting!!

And this post looks like it's for Wednesday, but only because I just now finished after midnight. It's also been a long day. haha. But oh, well. Life moves on and so do these fingers of mine . . . even if they are slow some days.

On the down side . . . reaching 60 doesn't mean I wrote 5 pages . . . but since I've been writing more than 5 lately it averages out. (The last two days I wrote almost 6 full pages.) And since it's after midnight, I'll be satisfied for now and catch some Zzzz's before waking up and doing it allllllll over again! hahaha . . . gotta love it! And I do . . . I love seeing the page count go up!

Cinco Pàginas—A New Day

Oh, how I DO NOT want to write. This is the last thing I want to do today!

But here goes anyway.

Cinco Pàginas—Cinco Pàginas

Made it . . . *sigh*

It's been a long day.

Cinco Pàginas—Cinco Pàginas

That's right! It's been a day of setting aside the emotional side of this project and just writing. I feel very bland but also very focused. Which I'm OK with.

Cinco Pàginas—Cinco Pàginas

I've made it . . . actually, I'm almost at six now. : )

Cinco Pàginas—Only 7 More Pages . . .

 . . . until I reach 50. That will be a quarter of my total goal written.

There's also 11, 268 words (that's including those little squiggly section breakers though).
: \

Cinco Pàginas—1000 Words

I have reached the 1000 words mark for today! That's not even cinco pàginas though! haha. Oh, well . . . it's like 3 1/2 pàginas. : \

Cinco Pàginas—1st Post

Five pages. That is how many pages I need to write everyday to stay on top of my project. So, far it's been rough. I did six last Monday but after that my highest was three. I've got about three today . . . but am shooting of passing three. We'll see how that goes.

I didn't go running this morning with Crystal because it seems to mess up my focus on the project. I get in the exercise/cleaning mode and end up wasting half the day organizing stuff. : \ It's also hard for me to focus in the afternoons. But in the evenings I find that I crave running to let go of all the stress that's built up during the day. So, we'll see . . . I'd like to rearrange my schedule a bit.

Until later . . . adiós.