Not a very productive night. Work is doing that thing where, like, I’m supposed to take it all seriously and work late and all this craziness. Now, for perspective, I had to work 25 minutes late. But, given I have a 2 hour writing window at best, that means, it becomes a 90 minute writing window before I crash at 10. Not amusing.

The goodnews is that Chapter 4 is complete, and unified into one document again. I tweaked it a bit tonight and seem to still like it. I ended up working on it every day this weekend, because I knew I wouldn’t be able to write Monday night.

“The Producers” is in town, and although I had no intention of seeing it (since I saw the original Nathan Lane/Matthew Broderick pairing on Broadway), I got sucked in… by more big names. Jason Alexander (George from Seinfeld) and Martin Short (from SNL) are taking over the lead roles when it hits Los angeles for an 8 month run, and they decided to let them hit the boards for a week up here to get ready. It was entirely sold out, but I scored a single ticket from the cast and crew row that wasn’t being used, which got my front and center for a great time. Even stayed late to get autographs, although I’m really getting bored with it. Tried to get Mel Brooks’ autograph as he left (as he is here to help tweak the show for them, or moral support, or something), and he’s like, “No, I don’t do that,” shook my hand, and never made eye contact and never altered the path to his waiting car.

Jason and Martin were just charming and humble, though. Personable, chatty, just really nice guys. Of course, it was their first time doing the roles in front of an audience, after the first two months in L.A., they may be beelining it to their limos, too.

Anyway, I wrote on Saturday to account for taking Monday off, so I’m not running behind, aside from the whole book taking too long, of course.

The goal is to seal these chapters up this week. I just rinted everything out, and tomorrow will be me reading them in my apartment all night, and tweaking them until they sound great, and are cohesive. then, they don’t get cracked open again until I write “The End.” (Actually, they won’t get cracked open for six weeks after i write The end, but once I finish the book, I do plan on taking a month and a half off for distance.)

So, might seal them up tomorrow or Thursday, we’ll see.

Feeling good about the process, though.

Jeff

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