Writing Wednesday: Eating the Wolf One Bite at a Time

After a day of getting my feet on the ground from almost two months of summer research leave, I am confronting the fact that the rest of the world didn’t stop when I was away. I have a to-do list and it’s terrifying. I’m trying to apply the old saying: shoot the wolf closest to the sled and eat the elephant one bite at a time. I have three things to get sorted this August. First, I need work through the copy edits on my most recent book length manuscript. As readers of this blog know, I’m not necessarily a careful writer. I leave words out (I try to think that these are simply sub-vocalized texts), lose track of syntax during revision, and simply forget what it was that I was trying to say. This means that even my best versions of a manuscript are … pretty raw. Fortunately, most of the revisions tend to be easy for an experienced copy editor and I don’t think this will take long. Second, this summer, the last bits of the second volume dedicated to our work at Pyla-Koutsopetria finally…