Productive Saturday

Three scenes added.
Two different pairs of chapters combined and/or rearranged.
4000 words deleted.
Football scenes sent off for expert opinion.
It's amazing what an hour of uninterrupted planning (ie, waiting for DD at a swim party) can do for you. Plus an afternoon when you are not the Only Responsible Adult around.
I think my book is shorter than DH's now. Yay! (His is academic research--we are both trying to finish before school lets out.)
I think I have the bones now. If I do, then it's mostly a matter of tidying up the text on the page (as opposed to moving things around and large changes).
I'm exhausted and ready to take a break tomorrow. My house is messy and I need to practice the organ. But today was definitely productive!

Football

Okay, so I am monumentally dense when it comes to reading or hearing the rules of a game. I get far more out of it when I actually just play the game and have the rules explained to me along the way. The problem is, it's time for me to fill in those lorem ipsum football scenes in the book. Which means the best way to do this would be to go outside and play this game. Alas, my boys, who have spent formative years in Germany, have no clue how a pointy American football is supposed to work. I do have a copy of Football for Dummies checked out. Um.

Somehow I feel like Hermione trying to figure out which end of the broomstick she's supposed to sit on, and feeling bereft of a proper instruction book.

If you see a 38-year-old woman running around the park with a football and making a total fool of herself, please don't laugh too loud, okay?