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Drive//train

The ghost writing project feels done. And not just because I got snippy with the client over when she could and could not call me and why. It feels done, even, for reasons she wasn't quite in a place to understand. It feels done because we had finally come to that place where she read the manuscript, and wanted a word changed here, or a sentence changed there. Then she read it again and wanted to call this person by a different name, or change the adjective used to describe this event. It was time to seal it up, format it, and see if it could fly on its own. All in all, it was an interesting project, one that I learned a lot from, and learned a lot about myself through doing. Career wise, I might not be anywhere near where I'd like to be, but by teaching someone else about the process of writing long fiction, and knowing something about how to navigate the peaks and valleys, I have come to believe I've traveled a far stretch myself. Somewhere in there, towards the end, I c