The halfway mark.

Ah yes, dear reader, the halfway mark. It's a scary place to be. And I'm referring to the halfway mark in editing Further Ahead.

Being halfway through anything always scared the hell out of me. You've already put so much work into something, and yet the possibility of failure still looms overhead. Will all the work be for nothing? When I ran cross country in high school, I always worried I'd roll an ankle 1.5 miles into a race.

I guess what I'm getting at is I'm concerned that working so diligently on this draft will be a complete waste of time. I began it almost a year ago, which is crazy to think about. And twenty years of life needed to go by for it to be written, which is even crazier to think about.

I guess that's the risk any writer takes. You want people to care, but you can't make them care.

And if this thing ever does get published, then in retrospect, this post will fall very short of the actual halfway mark. Time will tell.