A Tidy Mess

I spent much of this morning working on editing the academic article that needs to be converted from a (more than) 8000-word previously published academic journal submission, into a 5000-word book chapter. I've managed to get it down to just over 6000 words, using a complete slash and burn mentality. I think if I can lose another 500 words from the main thing, editing down the bibliography with its leaner list of sources should bring me into a reasonable word limit. It's definitely a morning-brain activity and took a surprisingly long time. I've given up being grumpy about not being paid and it being too late to affect my CV and have just got into the craft of it all, which was perhaps inevitable.Dispiritedly, I sat down at the computer and started to work on my album. But I managed to finish a song that I started the other day and quite unbelievably, write and record a whole other one. They are so rough around the edges, and one of them probably needs to be zeroed and re-started, but…