You might have noticed the blog has been a bit quieter than usual lately. That’s because most of my writing energy has been going into the book.
I set myself a few deadlines a while back, the kind you don’t tell anyone about so you can quietly pretend they never existed if you miss them. I haven’t missed them. Which is slightly terrifying, because it means the finish line is actually real and not just something I keep pushing ahead of me.
The manuscript is almost done. Like, properly almost done, not the “almost done” I’ve been saying for months, where “almost” meant “I still need to write three chapters and redo two others.” I’m in that final phase where I’m mostly fighting with myself over word choices and whether a particular code sample needs one more paragraph of context.
Oh, and there will be a print version. An actual physical book you can put on a shelf. I’ve wanted this from the start, but I didn’t want to promise it until I knew I could deliver something I’d be proud of. I’m there now.
So that’s what’s been going on. I’ll be back to regular posting once the final chapters are out of my system. There’s an FP article I still can’t finish, after all.