I ask my students to keep a document to keep track of their work. We call it a tracker.

I have a tracker, too, for this manuscript I’ve been working on. I don’t have a title yet. When I started it I was reading Judy Blume with Kara, so the terrible working title was “Are you there, God? It’s me, the trying-to-remain idealistic teacher.” Dreadful. Awful.

Here’s the first entry from my tracker:

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Write it as a book proposal?
Why not?

This morning, 7:29 AM, first draft complete!