Marcy,
I am not surprised that you are exhausted. Both of you. This has been going on for a long time and of course the trial itself must have been completely overwhelming.
Like you, I tend to write my first draft without reading anything else when I know the data and then I rewrite 10 million times.
What I think is likely to happen is what I suggested sometime ago. An agent will take the draft plus a query letter (you almost have that already) and will suggest someone book doctor or "ghost" just to make the book flow in a suspenseful narrative. Then it will become a best seller. Then you will be very happy and very busy and excited by all of this. Of
course books are unpredictable but that is what I suspect will happen.
GET rest, write and then enjoy your life.
I am struggling with an academic paper that has taken me months and months and I feel I am getting nowhere. I realize that i would be better off writing the whole long book and then cutting it down to an academic paper. So to feel like I am getting something done, i might just face my taxes today and tomorrow after swimming.
Warmly,
jch
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From: Puckett and Atwood <puckwood@comcast.net>
To: Jennifer Hunt <hunt_jennifer@yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: FYI
Hi Jennifer, I'm not sure I want to read anyone else. The entire media approach is completely wrong - again the only people that know the truth is the defense team and Frank. I was so exhausted, in all ways included emotionally, that trying to rewrite the draft letter last Wednesday was completely impossible. I threw up my hands in despair. Neal took it and smoothed it out and then sent it to you.
I didn't realize exactly how exhausted I was until I flew home on Thursday. I think I'm just going to write the book and get it done in a very short time. I am going to let Neal deal with the selling of it and smoothing it. That will be his problem. I think we can't truly be done with the case until the book is written.
I also pulled something in my back yesterday and it hurts. That's really the first time I have done
something like thatâ
How are you? Marcy
On Jan 28, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Jennifer Hunt wrote:
Neal and Marcy,
I just started Thomas Ricks The Gamble. He has a I suspect inaccurate but very interesting i.e. suspenseful account of the Haditha incident in the first few pages.
He is such a good writer, I thought it would be worth looking at.
Enjoy your weekend.
Warmly, jch