WIP Word Count: 3,559

It has been a while since I added any words to this project. I did some research, I made some notes, I thought and thought and thought. But I did not add any words to the actual manuscript.

In the meantime, I read "Bach Is a Strange Loop" by Denise S. Robbins, an essay on Bach and math and other things. I found the structure of the essay helpful for my own project. You probably don't think you want to read about Bach or math, but trust me. This is a good essay. More fun than you think. (https://romanticon.substack.com/p/bach-is-a-strange-loop)

I realized that I was writing and thinking around the project, not within the project, or on the project, or whatever preposition might be most appropriate here. I needed to open up the file and type words into the project. So I did, and it went surprisingly well. I felt good about the words, I knew where I was going ... and my laptop battery died. The place where it sits to recharge is not convenient to any writing surface. So I left the project hanging, which isn't bad. It's the advice Hemingway supposedly gave anyway, to leave off writing on a high note, even midsentence, so you know where to pick up the next day.

Today is the next day, and I did know where to pick up, so I did add a few hundred words to the project. And I will again tomorrow. Maybe the mantra now is "Every day in the project" to keep myself from dancing around it again with tangential work.

Onward.