It's Done

It wasn't part of my 11 in 11 but it still has everything to do with it.  Reading.  Reading is just another part of writing.  Filling the mind with knowledge flows out into one's writing in a way that nothing else can.  So - when I finish a book that's over eleven hundred pages, I feel like I have accomplished something.  Little by little I made my way through "It" and now it's done.

I read it in just over a month.  I do not recall exactly when I started it but I do recall telling Little Mama that I had just started it and it was going to be an investment of my time to finish.  This was on the eve of the birth of her new little son.  I wish I were better about recalling the exact date.  And I think I may have started it just a day or so before that.  It took Stephen King 4 years to write. 

In that time, he did release other books, which makes me pretty sure that he worked on other projects besides that one all by it's lonesome.  Much like anyone who's working toward multiple goals at once.  You do a little each day and you will get there.  Wading across the water is exercise too, if you do it enough times.

Tonight or tomorrow I'll be starting my next book - nonfiction this time (I try to rotate between the two) - going with history this round.  Otherwise, just gotta keep on keeping on with my other goals.  Spanish II starts tomorrow too...