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"How do you eat an elephant?" my dad asked me when I was little, and I would imagine the monumental effort to get a full-grown elephant on a regular dinner plate. "Bite by bite," he would reveal when he could see my head spinning.
This question came from the early days of fancy management theory and heavy leather-bound day planners, tools that have since moved onto our smartphones. But the technique for completing big goals remains the same; break it up into smaller tasks and keep going.
But what if you get tired of elephant along the way? I mean, elephant on the menu day in and day out, it's bound to get monotonous. And chewy. At times it must seem like it will never end. Are you allowed to eat vegan once a week, or is that a sign of lack of commitment to the cause? And what's after that? A blue whale? Two buffalos and a pygmy hippo? Even back then, I was full of tangential questions.
So, August was my annual break from the elephant. Now I am back and ready to dig in again. Bite by bite every day until there is a new novel. I will balance my diet with MICRO FICTION and METHOD WRITING to keep me sane and on track. All of that will show up here in the newsletter, so stay tuned and keep reading.
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