As I continue working on my book, Homeschooling Without Regrets, I find that, in a way, it has a mind of its own. Before writing, I listed out my original twelve chapters. Then, on the advice of my publisher, I added a new chapter for a grand total of thirteen chapters. As I wrote Chapter 4, it became evident that it was too long and needed to be divided into two chapters. That was easier to do than I anticipated because of a natural break in almost the exact middle.
Recently, I have finished the first draft of Chapter 9. As I look forward, what I thought would be three separate chapters (10, 11, and 12) are becoming in my mind a single chapter. As a result, the final chapter will be number eleven rather than thirteen. Whew! That’s a lot of changes. But that’s how writing works; it evolves as you work through it.
I already had the Introduction and the Afterword in place, but the Appendices have expanded. I thought I might have a chapter on Resources, but now it’s looking like four appendices instead. Anyway, I thought you might be curious as to how this messy process of writing works, at least for me.
I leave your with a photo of a White Evening Primrose taken last spring in my neighborhood’s pollinator garden.