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Work on Senna vs Schumacher book pauzed

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As of today, Monday, March 1st, the year of Our Lord 2010, I am officially no longer working on ‘The Encounter Down Under, an alternative version of the 1994 Formula One season’.

Confirming what’s already a fact of life

That saddens me, in a way, but it confirms what has been a fact of life for several months. Work on the Senna versus Schumacher story is postponed until further notice. Guesstimating for how long: 2 years sounds reasonable, and I’ll see how things are by then.

Website will stay online

This website will remain available online, and should any activity recommence, I’ll post it here. To keep up to date, sign up for email notifications all the way down in the right column.

For now, thanks for your interest and comments. Feel free to drop me a line at christiaan (insert at-symbol) lustig (insert dot) nl any time.

A frightening thought: should I quit?

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Last night, my wife had a frightening, yet understandable, and not entirely senseless remark. Since I haven’t done too much work on my Senna versus Schumacher story for some time — I’ve effectively added only a single chapter to part II in all of 2009 — she said:

“Why don’t you quit writing your book?”

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Terrible, just terrible…

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… that I don’t seem to be able to find the time to write my Senna versus Schumacher story. I haven’t given it too much priority of late — or rather, at all, in 2009 — due to all kinds of commitments in my personal life, work and church-related voluntary work.

So, sadly I haven’t done very much research on the 1994 French Grand Prix, let alone write the chapter. Realistically speaking, I won’t finish it in December, either, so I’ll have to aim for January at the earliest.

Writing time planned for this month

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A few hours of writing this week

For the first time since, say, April, I have planned to do some writing on my Senna versus Schumacher story, The Encounter Down Under. I have 2 days off from work, this week, and have planned to write during my son Nathan’s nap times.

Several days late September

Additionally, since I will start my new job at the Evangelische Omroep on October 1st, and I have some holidays planned beforehand, I have a couple of hours late September, too.

Part II-a corrections, and the Canadian GP

First of all, I plan to do some corrections on part II-a, which I received upon publishing the Spain and Monaco chapters, and I’ll re-publish part II-a afterwards. Furthermore, I hope to start work on the Canadian Grand Prix — I had finished research some time in February — in September.

And after that, who knows? I’ll keep you posted.

More time for writing with new job?

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I’m currently working on a new job, and should that come to fruition, I may get some more time to write The Encounter Down Under. The job is 36 hours per week, just like my current one, but with an option to do 9-hour days. This would free up not only my bi-weekly daddy day with my now 1-year-old son Nathan, but provide me with another day off every fortnight.