No, I haven’t finished the Spanish Grand Prix chapter of my Schumacher versus Senna story yet. I have read all of my scribblings, however, and I must say that I really got back into the groove. The 1994 Formula One season is top of mind again, and that’ll most likely help me proceed during the next couple of weeks.
I did make quite a large number of notes and I expect to make some minor changes to all previous chapters later on.
First post of the new year. And my first post in the second year of my blog. In a way that’s sad, because initially I had hoped to finish my book somewhere late 2008. Alas.
I announced late last year that I planned to reduce my working hours from 40 to 36 a week. This allows for a day off every other week, a day that I plan to spend (a) caring for my son Nathan and (b) writing my book The Encounter Down Under.
For the coming months, I have planned this day off every other Tuesday, starting Tuesday next. I plan to first re-read my work for part II of my Schumacher versus Senna story, to get back into the flow, and I hope to finish the Spanish Grand Prix chapter as soon as possible.
And maybe I’ll post some additional excerpts from the Monaco and Spanish GP chapters to keep you happy…
From January 2009 onwards, I will dedicate a day every other week to my writing. I will reduce my working hours from 40 to 36 per week, and thus have a day at home every fortnight. On that day I will be with my son, Nathan, but he will be asleep for a large portion of the day, of course, so I hope to have some 2 hours in the morning and 2 to 3 hours in the afternoon to spend on my Senna versus Schumacher story. That way I hope to gather some more speed than I had the last few months.
Yesterday I spent just over an hour on The Encounter Down Under, and I must say I quickly got back into the flow. The preview part of the Monaco Grand Prix chapter is almost finished. Later this week I’ll work on Thursday’s and Saturday’s practice and qualifying, in which I plan to include one or more interviews by Ayrton Senna, too. After that, of course, the race…
Sadly it is still somewhat quiet on the writing front. I’ve done a lot of preperation for my first child to be born in the next 3 weeks. And my writing has suffered because of it. But I hope I am forgiven.
I expect to at least start with the next chapter of my Schumacher versus Senna story soon, though. Ideas have started to form, which is good, but I’ll have to trust them to the (virtual) paper eventually.
Senna versus Schumacher 
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