From there to here

From there to here. It's a bit of a leap but eventually it had to be done. In between that here and now were a thousand words like "No" and "Soon", a thousand phrases like "Why am I doing this?" and "What's it for?" and a thousand sulks like "I don't want to be a blimmin academic anyway". But I had to do it and I knew I'd do it. You see, I'd signed a contract. I had to do it. Also I was working with two other people and I couldn't just turn round to them and say "No, I'm not doing it. I've changed my mind" because life doesn't work like that. One day I had a fantasy that I won the Lottery and paid them off so that they'd do my stuff - for a fantastically good rate, of course. I was a Lottery winner after all - the book would get written, the work would get done and no one would lose. It was a fantastic plan and it would have worked if only I'd won the Lottery. Actually I did the Lottery and I chose the right numbers. It was the machine that pulls the balls out. That chose the wrong numbers. In the end, of course, I did it. And predictably enough, I enjoyed it. The chapter got done - published on my website: http://www.jednovick.com/Jed_Novick/Odd_Bits_Of_Writing/Entries/2012/1/7_DAVID_BECKHAM.html The rest of the book got done, too. Chapters commissioned, written, pulled in, edited, finished. Done. OK - I've got one small thing to do - a 'bridge' chapter on Spanish football - but basically it's done.