CALVINO NUMBER 10

Interim report on the 3rd draft of the new Calvino novel. I am on schedule to finish the third draft in 8 to 10 days. My work day begin in the morning with reviewing the previous days pages, then lunch. I return to my desk and begin the process of shifting, deleting, modifying, rewriting the text. After dinner, I go through the next pages of the second draft, looking at reader notes, and rethink whether the scene advances the story. Whether the characters are acting consistently, whether their motives for acting are clear, and whether background narrative is adding to a well-rounded story. This goes on seven days a week. I stop for lunch and dinner and workouts at the health club, then back to the isolation tank.