A Writer's Notebook, Day One-Thousand-Six-Hundred-And-Fifty-Eight

I am working hard on what has become, by now, a book about vampires and anti-Semitism, and I am still learning quite a lot as I go on with it.  There are many areas to explore, not only in terms of the vampire media that is worth discussing, but also in the aspects of anti-Semitism as it exists both today and historically, and I am finding myself delving very deep and learning quite a lot.  At this point, I have around 50,000 words, which is still on the shorter side for a full length manuscript, I believe, but I am also still at a point where it is a disheveled mess.  There is no order to it, no center at all.  I have simply spewed it all out onto the page, and what is there is often quite good, I think, but it is certainly not in any shape that I would call a book.  As well, I have not done a great job in terms of documenting, not yet.  I have a great deal of research material, but I have not been all that methodical in my approach, so I am often drawing upon the knowledge that is in my mind without being all that clear of where it came from.  In short, even if I felt that I had exhausted the matter, I would still be near the start of putting this together.  I am a bit daunted by the process of getting the whole thing in shape, to be honest, but I remember when I began thinking about writing this piece at all and that seemed impossible at first, as well.

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