I think yesterday’s post was the first time I’ve ever directly referred to That Thing as a “book”.
And I’m freaking out slightly — like the heavens are going to open and rain down lightning bolts and ninja cats on me.
Anybody else have this psychosis?
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I couldn’t call it a book until I finished the first draft. 🙂 It was that thing I did at night and on weekends for the longest time. It’s scary to say book.
Glad I’m not the only one. My favorite phrase is That Thing — followed closely by That Long Thing, This Thing That I’m Working on, and DON’T TEMPT THE GODS.
Ha! I do the reverse: I call it The Book but I don’t have a ‘real’ title for it yet!
But now EVERYONE KNOWS.
[paranoia scurry]
it’s a powerful act to give a thing a name.