I am a third of the way through my work in progress, Appearances: A Novel in 365 Fragments.  It's taken me 8 months to reach this point.  I'm off the pace I'd set for myself at the beginning of the year.  I doubt I'll have a first draft, as planned, by the end of this year.  But, then again, I've never seriously attempted anything on this scale before.  And I am determined to see it through.

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Watched the great black and white noir classic D.O.A. this afternoon.

Also this afternoon found a decent used copy of Whitehead's Adventures of Ideas which I've been thinking I need to have a look at.

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My poetry reading at Kent State is a couple of weeks away.  Am looking forward to the occasion with mixed emotions.  Trying not to psych myself out about it.

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A pivotal question in Appearances:  "How much of one's life is fictional?"  I think it is a very important question.

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Started, just barely, reading the new bio of David Foster Wallace:  Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story.  It looks promising.

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