"PETER'S STORY" INTERVIEWS ARE TYPED UP!

This morning I typed the last

of my interviews for "Peter's Story," which covers Peter's life up through age 18 and which may be all of the story we wish to tell at this point. The total materials typed in? About 70,000 words.

I have the materials broken into eighty-two chunks, and each chunk is labeled as to what it covers. Sometimes we touched on the same topics two or three times, so a big part of the job early on will be sorting the like chunks into the same pile and integrating them, then putting them in the proper order. The order of the materials will be a little problematic, as there is much threading and weaving that will have to be done so this story makes sense. I've got a tentative outline already prepared; I call it tentative, because I'll be greatly surprised if it doesn't get changed several times before I'm done.

Okay - say WA-HOO. The interviews are transcribed. The transcriptions are typed up. It was almost spring yesterday. It will be almost spring today. Things go well. I feel MUCH better now than I did in January when we returned from Cozumel and I had all this transcription and typing waiting for me. We're on a roll!

Comments

[Lois]

Let the people say AMEN, or as you suggest, WA-HOO. Keep up the good work!

[Tom Montag]

Thanks, Lois. I spent some more time on it today and have two pages ready to put in the "done" pile, which is where I put the pages I'm done with until until the big revision at the end. We push on!