On doing the main thing

Transcribing means taking handwritten pages and typing them up; revising to cadences; to expand, to finalize.

I am still here, Substacking with you, reading yours, but not as much writing mine (i.e. lately you may have noticed several photo posts instead of a poem or a prose piece) but that’s because I have good news: I am focusing on book manuscript deadlines as the main thing (yes, yes, I hear the Roxy Music song too).

I am 28,041 words into finalizing one man…