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| The Book
Ordinary Stories of Magic, Adventure, and Chocolate
September 15, 2009
Well, it's been over a year since my old laptop was stolen. I think at this point I can almost say I'm glad it happened. I can't remember how I got by with that old laptop that couldn't do so many of the things I now take for granted, and I ended up rewriting the book in ways that I'm pretty sure made it much better. Everyone told me that would probably be the case, but I guess it was a little hard to believe when I was in the middle of it. It's funny how often things that seem so crappy can actually turn out to be those well-disguised blessings.
I didn't work on the book at all from May until October, and instead focused on a series of collaborative reportbacks from Japan about the global justice organizing surrounding the G8 summit in July, which were published on alternet and beyond. When I finally settled back into Ordinary Stories last fall, I had to start editing back at the beginning, rereading everything, making enormous changes, and eventually adding a few new sections. As the year unfolded, resolution to some of the questions the book had left unanswered started to appear through the circumstances of my life, and as a result, the ending of the story actually changed. |
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